All 43 servers are low pop. The server I’m playing on, Bloodsail Buccaneers, has literally no one in Durotar and there’s barely anything for sale in the Auction House.
I think you could merge down to 10 vanilla servers, and then spool up like 20 Wrath servers. You would end up with less servers total, and have more players on Classic because people would come back to play Wrath again.
I think 10 servers for Vanilla would work out well, it’s a minimal footprint and keeps that mode alive for those who plan to keep playing long term. It also frees up server resources for new game modes.
I mean, it’s a weekend right now and everyone is off of school or out of work, and there’s hardly anyone in Vanilla. They’re all low pop. At one time we needed 43 servers, but not now. I’m not saying get rid of Vanilla, I’m saying some merges would condense existing players onto these servers and maybe we could get a few medium pop servers after the merges, which would be nice.