I could not agree more with this. I was not a fan of CRZ unless it was used to save a dead server, basically. Servers in classic/tbc absolutely need to remain separate and autonomous. One of the most appealing aspects of classic wow is server community and despite the huge increase in player caps from what they were in vanilla, the community aspect of servers is still present, just imo to a lesser degree.
CRZ is something I’ve never really liked about retail. I think servers should exist independently from one another, and only in very specific situations should realms be “paired” with each other utilizing CRZ. Just my 2c. I realize this is really off-topic with regard to layering but I saw the comment and had to agree with it. As of right now on Herod, queues aren’t really present during the off-days in the week. On Tuesday though, the queues are back to starting at like 6pm EST and are still getting excessive enough to cause hour long queues.
Edit: I say that and there’s a queue of like 500+ on Herod on a Wednesday which I don’t think most guilds raid on. So yeah, queues are still an issue.