Square's solution was dumb, but I'm surprised the raiding community isn't adapting and just meeting on Primal instead of Aether since that dc is actually open. I'd heard from some friends that this was the case, but OP's post leads me to believe that there's still a sizable chunk of folks who refuse to leave the locked datacenter and would prefer to wait until crazy-hours to sneak in rather than just migrate to a new hub dc. Weird.