Separating people who wanna do RP and people who aren’t interested in RP is not going to kill anything.
Heck, make RP the default and allow someone to choose to go to an empty shard.
You’re acting like forcing someone who’s not wanting to RP to be on the RP shard is going to “kill” the community.
Do you realize how silly you sound?
“OH NOES the people who don’t wanna RP all left the RP version of SWC! Whatever will we do!?”