I mean, if the technology could handle it I’d love to have all the RP servers be merged or connected. More people to interact with YEEE! It’d especially be awesome if the faction populations weren’t so unbalanced on MG and WRA. I think it would be neat to have more opportunities for crossfaction interaction that didn’t depend on prearranging stuff.
I have doubts that the technology could handle it, though.
I think the technology is there, personally. The challenge is implementation. A better idea is to expand the connected realms feature and just leave all of the low pop realms mixed with each other, rather than cherry picking who gets mixed with what. Most of the low pop realms are so low pop that, even after opening up more connections, you’d probably never see anyone from them running around.
I’ve said it elsewhere, but if people are still actively playing the game but harboring hardcore grudges from the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Aught Seven they really need to review where they’re putting their mental energy. If the MG/WRA split was a person, it would be in high school.
Then again…roleplayers, man. We’re a dramatic bunch 
I started my WoW rp tenure on Sentinels! Way back in the Burning Crusade days 
we all left because the RP griefers started taking over, though. I’m glad to hear there’s still an RP community there!
Which is where the use of the current connected realms comes into play. Rather than a physical merger, they could keep the division of server but allow all of the low pop realms of a given type to bleed into one another. In the case of RP realms, because their low pop realms are basically empty, it might be wise to divide them up between MG and WrA.
Given time, as populations continue to dwindle, they could slowly cut down on the amount of hardware maintaining the servers until they eventually do the mega-server thing. As the population continues to shrink (which, for the moment, Dragonflight has greatly slowed), they’ll probably have no choice somewhere down the line.
Ideally they’d scrap Retail style sharding in favor of Classic-style layering.
The latter is vastly preferable because:
So for example if you’re chasing an enemy down in War Mode, you’d be able to follow them across zone borders in a layer where currently with shards they’d mysteriously vanish because the two of you got placed into different shards for the zone you entered. It’s much much closer to the old style single server experience.
Oyay! I used to run Emerald Mask, then we merged with Convocation, then the guild lead rage deleted the guild and I gathered everyone into Firewind. Then we merged Firewind and Reverie into a casual everything guild in Wrath. Been RPing on and off, along with other casual stuffs ever since. 
You know how hard it is to get a good believable name on an RP realm? That’s why you have idiots running around with names like Milatanathuratiamacarena and they’re a gnome.
I am down for more realm connections, but I hope they have their ducks in a row the next time they do it so we don’t run into another Khadgar level disaster.
Or add a “of <server name” to the end of each name.
Seems like a plausible step. Blizzard’s proven they’re capable of automation. Not always great at executing it but they definitely do more than most other MMO’s.
Wonder if they’d go the extra mile and give us last names? Would be kinda cool. Unnecessary, but cool.
Who knows though. They tend to surprise us with this stuff.
this would work without players changing names