Soooo what's the maintenance on NA DCs for?

[Hanayumi]

I wish.

"Dynamis was a mistake. We've evenly distributed the servers into the original pool, and we gave Primal and extra server. The next expansion will be adding the two missing servers to Aether and Crystal to compensate for the disparity."

Nah, Materia wasnt a mistake, it just came too late to take in the newer populous. And while EW had the largest player count overall than any other expansion so far its also got the largest dip in active players, definitely the worst expansion to keep players active/engaged. Think with the next expansion we'll see things start to even out across the DCs if EWs end and the expansion trailer and info is enough to peak players interests and bring folks back.