Plus, the “may” referred to making transfers possible “since it was in vanilla”. Nothing about free - just that there “may” be transfers. So, prepare to pay $25 for it. Blizz “may” be generous and give you a free transfer from Herod to something else.
But looking at the current realm status, it’s only if you’re on those same four troublemaking servers that the issue comes up anyhow.
Far as I can tell, no one else has queues. Granted, this is on Thursday afternoon, but still…