It seems to be fixed now. I joined a Humon’gozz group and everyone phased to the same shard.
I was just leveling with friends and had to go to oribos to be phased in with them, so i’m not sure about that
I’ll tell you, if I had known about this I so would not have resubbed and paid for 6 months 
At least Blue posted in another page about an hour ago that they fixed this except for the Upper Level Maw… not sure really what that entails. I really feel that my money was wasted
Whelp @Everyone… This was NOT INTENDED. This was changed as of tonight and hotfixed. Here is the blue post. Ty @Blizzard for addressing this. 
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/grouping-in-the-shadowlands/736070
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Classic had layering, which is a 100x better system than what CRZ and Sharding has ever been. I also never had any lag or anything with the classic launch.
I get the reasons for Sharding, but it should be for the connected realms only, or to be replaced with layering. As for CRZ that should be invite only and not forced like it is now. Then i would play retail again.
I want to play and meet people from my own connected realms, i don’t care for randoms from other servers as people really don’t talk with each other or interact with each other. The people you see from other realms not connected to yours might as well be NPCs, all forced CRZ and sharding has done is made the open world feel fake and it doesn’t feel like what WoW use to be like before these poorly made systems was forced upon the game.
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This is KILLING roleplay in cities right now. What were once filled zoned in WRA for Horde and SW areas on Moon Guard are now filled with maybe 5-9 people. It’s absolutely ridiculous. Now I figured Blizzard was just doing it for the invasion event due to the amount of people that would turn into ghouls and do all that jazz, but now that its passed and people want to roleplay… there is literally nobody to roleplay with. What’s the point of playing this game if there’s nobody to play it with? Seriously.
But hey, at least Moon Guard’s most famous inn filled with smut and ERP is still in working action, right? Thanks Blizzard, glad to know what side you’re on.
oh man, i tried to sync with someone doing quests in the maw. it was a nightmare. tried everything. it works in some places fine then sync just croaks for certain quests. it is the most frustrating system i’ve yet to encounter. when it works fine it is fantastic though.
the maw part was today, during EST afternoon.