Dude none cares about the poll !
The ground situation atm is
80% Horde sided atm, a lot of alliance players jas already moved to horde for same reason.
In english speaking guilds, only 'I n f a m o u s', 'Rebirth' and 'Murmur' are left on alliance, and even 'I n f a m o us' lost its one officer and some raiders to horde last week.
VOA 25 Emalon almost next to impossible if its not a grun ! Not flaming on it, but they made VOA fully impossible for PvP players.
Game is kind of im-balanced atm totally.
About the end raid thing, aight mate lets just pretend for a while that Lordaeron moves to ICC raids
What would be the difference left between Lordaeon and Icecrown realms ?
#1 - Its a 1x realm
#2 - Lordaeron has buffed raids and you need like minimum 10 hours for a hardcore guild for progression run. Rather, on icecrown you can do it within 5 hours while chilling around even.
#3 - Due to the overbuffs, some melee classes are totally useless in 25 man unless you are over geared for that particular raid. Thats a setback to most of players who played melees more, like warriors.
1st point was the highlight which dragged many players earlier.
The 2nd and 3rd point is why people are moving to icecrown more.
Dont even mention levelling part without RDF, i wanted to learn to play Disc priest but dont have stamina to level up as Disc, just because RDF is not available and it would never be as mentioned around 1000 times by staff, that another reason why new comers avoid starting up here. There may be people who would be starting new, but they are just almost 1 or 1.5% in comparison to that in past. i see levelling zones mostly empty.
I have a lot of friends who raid in top guild of realm atm ['Memories'] and do hard modes and all they complain is 'There is not much competition even on realm firsts anymore' and i tell them simply,"well mate, its gonna be the same story all along till end"