I'm curious what is the general opinion of merging servers among the community here?

I recently transferred off of Balmung to Mateus, and it's like a completely different (and depressing) game. Like, this transfer was hands down the worst decision I ever made in this game and there are no take backs now. If I didn't still have a character I could go back to on Balmung, this would be enough for me to quit the game over, but as it is, I feel like my main is effectively dead besides weekly raids.

I know Balmung gets a lot of flak but it has a level of activity that should really be the norm on every server. Hunts are busy, chat is active,the market is good, zones have plenty of people running around in them - it's alive in short.