Yes, i dislike layering, and somewhat dislike the notion of paid transfers at the discretion of the players.
But like I said, there were actually various ways that Blizz could have tried to change some things. (Instead, I think they wanted to watch it all unfold organically and not try to put their hands in it too much. Can’t fault them for hoping social dynamics can influence itself.)
However, they could have had meetings with previous private/pirate server hosters and tried to find out things like:
What did you guys learn? What did we do right? What did we do wrong? How was faction balance/imbalance affecting the gameplay experience on your pservers? What would you have wanted to do differently?
I can’t fathom the notion that a multi-billion dollar company did not think about these things, and/or open talks with the previous hosts of Nost/Northdale/Lights Hope etc.
Either way, here we are. Classic has been very fun in many respects. It has also been very frustrating in a few. 