I've been a fan of WvW since 2012 and here are my thoughts after 10 years through a short story.
Imagine you owned a chain with 24 different locations at the start, with a small selection on the menu. Business is great for the first few years and the queues are unending. Instead of leveraging upon the business boom to innovate, you decide to open a themed restaurant, albeit with the same menu items in hope to defray some of the crowds. The themed restaurant opens to great fanfare. However, people soon realise that it's no different from your main restaurants and stop patronising. The queues of your main restaurants have started to dwindle anyway and there seems to be no reason to favour the themed restaurant any longer.
After a few years, people get tired of the food. "It always tastes the same! They don't innovate or improve upon their food", they say. Casual diners stop showing up and business drops.
You get perplexed and you start to wonder what to do. You figure it would make sense consolidating some of these restaurants. Perhaps merge three that are close in proximity into one to maximise footfall - the other two were suffering from a lack of crowds anyway. You are bleeding rent and you can't justify the operating costs.
Loyal customers who have been with you from the start drop several suggestions, including changing the menu and food offerings. They think the potential of the restaurant is there, but it needs to improve and innovate. Those suggestions inevitably fell on your deaf ears.
Over time, customer numbers continue to drop and you realise that something needs to be done. Over the next year and a half, you reconsider some of the feedback from your customers and get to work. After a long period of wait, you unveil the changes - a version of the same restaurant, with the same food, but scaled down to even fewer outlets. Fin.
Disclaimer: this is not meant to be an attack on the efforts of the work out in over the years. I'm sure there were many moving parts and factors that contributed to the development decisions and roadmap. I have been a fan of this game mode since the start and I avoid PvE 99% of the time. However to me, the fix for WvW isn't a smaller restaurant, but a different menu, different dishes.
The ping is ridiculous this evening and absolutely unplayable, how can we as SEA / OCX folks get the attention of admins? Feels like no one reads this thread from the admin team.
