I was the person responsible for ensuring they didn’t successfuly stealth merge tbc oceanic to na bg/arena servers the overwhelming majority over 1700 people said they didn’t want it in the thread i also got banned on forums for refusing to back down when they changed title of my posts. (Original post for what your talking about - Oceanic Realms Broken - Merged with US Battlegroup (Lag))
The reason why there’s issues with the queue times and arena times is because blizzard refuses to adjust to problems that smaller regions face rather than look to fix queue times / arena times they left them alone completely and that’s why people were complaining
They made some poor attempt to give people a item they can open after a bg or something that was about it
Oceanic has and always will be its own region with its own players we are never going back to being people on a NA realm we have our own servers our own communities and we want to keep it that way.
If a person wants to play on jom they can go re roll there like others have i know of personally 5 people who regret playing on jom and would instantly transfer back here
I know of at least 15 players on Lionheart OCE PVE who would instantly transfer to Swamp of Sorrows OCE PVP if it was open