So what was the point of the server upgrades when I can't continue the MSQ?

[Vhailor]

You can give SE all the server resources on the planet; it still won't help them anticipate basic problems like this. This dev team is tremendously boneheaded when it comes to matters of game balance, content abuse, and server stress accommodations.

a video game is having performance issues immediately following a giant patch during early access of that patch that incidentally brought a giant wave activity so much so I've seen people who weren't around for almost a year? say it isn't so!

I'm sorry but NO. SE shouldn't get a free pass for this. Any idiot could have told them there would be issues with the instance servers near launch time. The obvious solution to this is to not make such an early f*cking storyline quest gated by an Instance, especially a solo one.

You put more distance between the launch and the storyline so that the flow is lessened; you make the initial instances group-based so that there are fewer instances created; and you allocate temporary extra resources.

SE did none of these things. They walked face-first into an obvious problem like complete amateurs. This is a company with as much MMO experience as any company in the industry. It is not wrong to expect them to foresee things like this and prepare accordingly.