Ah, Jubjub. I have not met you before, but I can tell already that we are brothers in spirit. I agree completely with your choleric outrage at the overwhelming selfishness one frequently sees the "haves" when they attempt to justify the current system, which is immensely unfair and wasteful. So frequently do I see "well, freeing up empties won't be enough, so don't free up empties plzzzz", in much more flowery language - yet anyone who rationally thinks about the situation quickly realizes that adding new wards without evicting inactives will only create so many more dead wards, and solve no problems.

It's either eviction or instances. Instances would destroy neighborhood social interaction, so eviction is wonderful to me.