This is terrible to hear and reminds me a lot of the situation I am in and made a forum post about here: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/left-behind-by-blizzard/1331134
WoW is supposed to be a social game and the way they are handling the servers has put so many people into situations like ours and is completely unacceptable. Hopefully the devs will read the forum posts like ours and realize they are losing long time subscribers because of the hurdles they are putting in place for people to play with their friends.