It has gotten to the point that whatever side loses the group fight at the beginning of a BG suffers a ~50% loss of players; no exaggeration. There is no recovering from that. What this results in is a penalizing of players who do not desert.
Either it gets fixed now or it will have to be fixed soon, so I don’t get worked up over it. Left as the way things are now, soon the losers of the group fight will all desert.
BGs and EBGs will just be one group fight and nothing more.