What do you need a server merge for? Most stuff you can do solo or with small groups. This issue keeps coming up. Someone says "server populations are dwindling", like this is an inherent problem.

Have you ever tried to do a Dynamis farming run at the same time? More than like 10 people and every camp is over farmed.

Salvage gets overcrowded and people need to wait an hour or more to get in. Same with Limbus and Ark Angel fights. You do a server merge and this gets worse.