Having a toon on AB I agree the population level of Anotnia bayle should not be increased at this time. Maybe in the future LDL could be merged into AB but right now it is not recommended unless you plan on adding additional servers to AB to offset the gain of the merge with LDL. The other servers are badly in need of a server upgrade and merges should be made to make the other servers up to the population levels of AB or the AB-LDL merger. Right now I know crushbone is having tremendous amounts of lag especially in outside contested zones and in the underfoot raid instance.
I would love to know the plan on when these servers would be upgraded and what the plan is for server mergers.