The bards performing are putting in inputs and therefor might not get logged out by the system.

I don't really feel like some random person standing somewhere dancing in a silly glamour adds anything of note to the community that would outweight someone else being able to log into the game and particulpate.

Keep in mind too that apparantly only the NA datacenters got the recent infrastructure upgrade so queue times are probably worse in other region s as well because they can't have as many concurrent logged in players.

It can also vary by server, datacenter, and time of day you log in as well. Just because you don't personally have a problem logging in doesn't mean it's not an issue. If it's gotten enough attention that yoshi p put out a post apologizing for it, I'm going to err on the side of saying it's negatively affecting a good number of people.