I think the point I was making is that you don't have to be the one running the business to see what the end result is. Your argument is the same as saying since I don't work in the White House I have no business voting. I could go into credentials, but that seems pointless, since if you were actually part of the business world you would already know the importance of customer feedback, and validating concerns by active listening. Your "kids, get off my lawn" routine is a bit stale.
The point of this thread is about the server migration problems and server drain. You can argue that it's not true, but everyone knows it is. Sure, there might be a handful of people who are too invested to move on and stick around after four years. It really depends on what interests you. I think for those interested in PVP there really isn't much incentive after the choke hold sets in, without some way to increase competition or lessen the effects of the power gap.
It's not sustainable, in that it's completely possible to take over a server on the first day, at which point you are the apex predator with nowhere else to go. Your character is limited to that server, and cannot be imported to a more active one. Lamodomo talks about inviting friends to play, which I argue is just a stopgap measure that only highlights the lack of server progression, as I think most of us here would take genuine competition over trying to fill an empty room.
As it's said, form begets function, and this is inherent in the game's design. Maybe it changes down the line, maybe it doesn't. We'll all adapt how we feel the need to. But it does no one any good to just write off any possibility of change, or write off other's concerns. The worst idea is the one never spoken. Or starting a land war in China. Whatever the case, you can thank those that care about the game enough to be participatory in the act of innovation for any changes in content that do occur.
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
-Alice in Wonderland
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you **** with me, I'll kill you all."
-Gen. James "Chaos" Mattis, USMC to Iraqi tribal elders