As far as que times/ grand company stuff goes, even as things stand now..would say its here to stay. Reason: Because they work juuuuust fine...on JP datacenters. No..I have no way to prove any of this..just a theory. But a few thoughts come to mind.

When I was on Tonberry server briefly, I couldn't so much as use the bathroom during jp primetime between matches. Yeah..pops were literally that fast. I dunno..maybe JPs just enjoy pvp more than NAs/EUs in general? (Basing this off the fact that in ff11, though Ballista had all but died out on NA based servers, it was strong til the last on JP heavy ones) If this werent true...think about what would happen to pvp if all the lures/rewards were tossed out the window. How many would still pvp if no fancy glams or tomes to look forward to? The que times are the way they are for a sad reason ;/