This is the worst thing that could've been done and shows not only a lack of willingness to address the issue itself, but also panic from the developer team. This is hostile, violent actions taken against the users of this program, and furthermore penalizes everyone OTHER than the people responsible. If they're afk, they won'tfeel it. Meanwhile, anyone playing the game or anyone stuck in queue who is about to lose their place will.

Remove the afk-kick resistance from cut-scenes. From crafting and gathering. There, improvement already. People stick coins in their keyboards? Ok. Deal with those then instead of just nuking the servers - which is what I suspect will happen and is why not only specific servers will be affected. They're just bringing the data centers down, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened. Disappointed, but not surprised.
As it stands, the people who'll feel it more will be the people who'll have even MORE of a queue to deal with once it's accessible again.