The staff basically has a year's worth of patches to implement. And they don't implement them as quickly as they were implemented on live. If I had to guess, and I'm likely far less informed than many other people here, I'd say it will take them roughly 2 years to implement the year's worth of patches. Once that final patch hits, nobody knows for sure what will happen, but the least likely of all possibilities is the server simply being shut down. Maybe it will be frozen in time there for years to come, maybe they'll add custom content, maybe they'll even cave on their entire purpose for this server and implement further expansions (very unlikely unless staffing changes), who knows.
No matter how long it lasts, I'm sure it won't last forever. But there should be many years still left, and that should be plenty of time to do whatever you want. The server is full of players at all levels, grouping is easy enough to find, there are casual guilds and hardcore guilds, raiders and non-raiders. It's all here, and the only thing I think it's literally too late for are classic/Kunark server firsts and acquiring items that no longer drop. Other than that, have fun!
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