SE's plan is not fair to 100% of the player base... So how is 100% angry vs 40% angry better?

You will not please everyone with a merger, you might as well please as many as you can.

I myself would rather see servers merge into each other... most + least, and keep going down the lists. Merge the 16 into 8 servers. Keeping all your friends/LS together. But that seems not an option. I was just trying to think of alternative ways to satisfy some of the population.