Probably just repeating what a lot of others have said, but the continued Aether lock is nothing helpful. There's a venue I went to every week (pre-DT) on Aether, but they haven't even been able to open since Dawntrail because most of their staff and regular attendees are on other data centers. I can't even visit the few friends who are based there because the itty bitty window where Aether is open for travelers is -surprise surprise- at a time where I'm sleeping.

Having a large chunk of the socializing part of an MMO be completely inaccessible to anyone who isn't lucky enough to already have a character on one of the biggest DCs is absolutely nonsensical, and just defeats the purpose of the having congested worlds locked anyway -no one who manages to get to Aether is going to leave now for fear they can't get back, so the perceived high volume of players is never going to go down.

The intent of these measures makes sense in theory, but in practice -using an automated system especially- is an utter failure.