They’ve answered this a few months ago.
Majority of players prefer to play on lopsided servers (in their favor). Most people romanticize open world PvP because they think they are going to be the ones running around winning, but the reality of it is aside from a very small percentage of people who actually enjoys and dedicate time to roam and PvP, most players just get ganked and cry about it. There isn’t any fair way to balance it because almost everyone has their own rigid sense of how PvP should be.
tl;dr. Play on a PvE server, cause most people can’t stomach actual PvP