I know you’re memeing, and I wasn’t going to bring this up, but I would say this situation is largely a creation of Blizzard.
This is obviously editorial, but I think the big thing that hurt the Skyfury population was Blizzard creating Angerforge and offering free transfers from Skyfury.
It was a response to the short-term problem with queue times that had long-term negative results for both realms. Hindsight is 20-20, but it wasn’t sustainable.
It took just over two months for it to become enough of a problem that they tried to pull a complete 180 and roll it back. It doesn’t work like that though.
I sympathize with the devs trying to balance making the right choice in the face of overwhelming (and shortsighted) negative feedback from players. At the end of the day that’s their job though, and it wasn’t the right call. (In my humble opinion)