What annoys me is the situation is getting worse, not better. Disconnects from zoning in to areas are increasing, queue times are getting longer (up to near 4k on Tonberry) and there seems to be no actual plan or response from SE other than apathetic shrugging.

I am just at a loss how utterly unprepared SE were here. The early access launch was entirely for preorders so they had a pretty solid idea how many people were going to be trying to play. To make matters worse, we have the standard launch in a few days which is only going to make the situation even chaotic.