I am sure SE has thought of this, and there is a reason they have not done it, but just in case.

Is there any way you could restart all the world servers? (One at a time to reduce the log in load) Just boot everyone out of everything. This would remove a big chunk of the afk people causing the servers to be needlessly full in the meantime, while we wait for tomorrows update.

I do not think the servers have actually fully gone down since launch, or at least since Friday. I know there has been "Maintenance", but the servers did not go down for it.

The only kicking of players I have seen is if they either alt/tab and disconnect, or zone and disconnect.

Basically all I have seen is active players being removed from the game, not the afk ones.