Regarding Leela's Poll: Creating a Poll and then placing a link to said poll on a thread that is biased towards a particular option does not yield accurate results based on a cross-section of the community. That's the issue with the poll.

Also, I love how people are going about saying things along the lines of, "It looks like they are going to do the right thing." Very pretentious of you, to assume that you know what "the right thing" is in the eyes of everyone else. For someone like Sidious, this is not the right thing. Ironically he is more willing to say, "This isn't what I want, but I'll make do with it." than anyone else that has posted on this entire thread since it's inception.

No choice SE can make in this situation will make 100% of the population happy. There's no getting around that fact. Don't criticize SE's customer service and accuse them of releasing "half-assed" products because their decisions for the direction of the company or the products their company produces does not coincide with your personal beliefs on which direction the company takes or how the products are developed and released. You are not the CEO. You are not on the development team. Yes you are a paying customer who subscribes to the service.. but so is everyone else. Your personal opinion is not greater than their personal opinion. You are not "more right" than them.

That having been said, I honestly couldn't care less about which way they decide to merge the servers. None of the options are truly "ideal" and I'm willing to work within the confines of whatever choice they ultimately decide to make. There's only one person that I can honestly say I care where they end up.. and that's my wife. As long as she and I are on the same server, that's all I care about.