The queue used to be less than 5000 very often, I think with the last patch they disable the bypass where you could hit cancel and log in right away, now people actually have to wait.

The thing that confuses me is if before you could hit cancel and log in right away with no real server issues, why is the queue set so damn high to start with? Whatever problems SE had with release are apparently solved, the whole queue on log in needs to be looked at again IMO.