It's just helping those that used the bonus to grind out a main and however many alts.
Now the big obstruction to getting there appears. If you've been on Red since the start you're in a very good spot. If you wanted to start, well... you're playing more hardcore rules to get to the same point.
I think if the bonus was left in you'd see a healthier population. Still a while to Velious, so I'm sure there's plenty of bored blue server folks who at least want to give it a shot (recent server figures probably support that).
But no, take it away forever. I've dabbled on red in the past and soloing 1-25/30 gets boring pretty quick as it is, and will be worse if the XP bar isn't moving along. I'm sure its been said that the best PvP (what everyone turned up for) is at the 50+ end of the server.
I suppose global ooc is next?
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