WoW migrant speaking here, I don't recall WoW expacs launches ever being as bad as this.

The game is too good compared to WoW at this juncture, so its players are paying a price, in the form of this awful congestion. I've only been able to log in and play for a couple hours since launch time Friday morning, and I'm back looking at 5K+ queues, 2002 errors, repeated login attempts, frustration...

It's almost bad enough I'd been entertaining resubbing to WoW just for one month, so I'd have something to play while waiting for Endwalker to "stabilize". Almost, but not quite yet...