Made an account just to post here about this issue and how awful it is.

Why would you open data centers, let us make new friends across all of them only to then RIP AWAY my ability to hang out with them anymore? So much for having people over to my in-game house I worked tirelessly to decorate, they'll never see it now. This change is so blind to the social aspect of this game it is astounding to me how far they missed the mark with it.

I have lost a LOT of faith in the team over this one and I've been here since day 1 of ARR.... beyond dissapointed with this. I will simply never be able to visit my friends ever again on certain servers now because they are ALWAYS congested as a result of being a social hub.