I still believe to this day that sharding is the worst thing they implemented into WoW, i get the idea when a server is underpopulated and it needs to be more populated that sharding is a solution, but once there are too many people and you shard people away then the whole idea around sharding becomes very stupid for a MMORPG...
You play a MMORPG because you wanna experience an alive open world, not to feel like the game is dead because your server is too populated.
I feel like Blizzard should make a realm that is twice as big if not triple as big in server capability and have 0 sharding in place.
Look how alive Classic WoW looks like, how many people are everywhere and no shard in sight. The real MMORPG experience that retail lost.
For anyone who wants to go to this realm there should be a free realm change.