This is how I look at it.

If this expansion as you say is "pointless". Why not just take off a week or two ? Surely you can time off playing something that meaningless after all. Enjoy the fresh air. By time you return in a week or two servers will be all back to normal.

However if you MUST play and experience the expansion on the first week of release, then it has a lot of value and is direct opposite of meaningless.