Just a thought:
The layer hopping became an issue when we figured out we could find ine that had a more convenient time to capture the apirit towers. On Bene, we start getting massive lag on layers about 15-20 min before the towers are up. I suspect that if a change was made, it was simply adding a queue for layer hops once the population was capped for the layer. It’s unfortunate that this was an unexpected consequence of the new’ishbhonor changes… But it’s far from unreasonable.