Small guild can't expect to have all 6k GS. We need to build, progressing on both normal and HC. Cause like i said above, we don't have tons of people with high GS, know all tactics, etc. We need to also teach those low GS, new comer, and elses. And this systems just ruin it all.
Actually, its simple. People go for private servers, because it is not as hardcore as retail. And here we do have Lordaeron, which is blizzlike. Why should apply this to Icecrown ? That's, the point of PRIVATE SERVER. That's, the point of making the Icecrown realm. Now if we make it to be more and more blizzlike, why don't you just merge all realm, and make it blizzlike ? Then you can start to wait and see, how many people left and how many people stay. Well, we can predict the results by now. Just see how many people are in Lordaeron, and how many people are in Icecrown - expecting that Icecrown realm are not as hard as Lordaeron.
Making Icecrown like retail ? Poof ! People's gone.