Some people in here are straight up INSANE, and I mean it in a bad way. Sure the gear wall is here and always has been. You can get geared well enough(WF items wise) in matter of few months if you would keep floating around 1,8k-1,9k (and it's 100% doable in furi/rele gear, done it numerous times by now).
But what do you want ? To reach 2.7k+ with basic gear and almost no experience at all ? Yeah that's not gonna happen. Frankly as an Icecrown player I have more than welcomed the cross-realm change, because it means we have way bigger competition and way shorter ques on high rat, been sittin always in top10 prior to crossrealm, and since the crossrealm I'm getting *****slapped by skillcapped players from BR, which is exactly what I've been looking for, because the room for improvement is always there.
Partially I get why people were crying out rivers full of salty tears regarding to gear and crossrealm BG's for example, but since they've introduced the GS brackets I see no reason why they would put it down now, especially after the staff invested so much in it to even happen.
You just have to realize and swallow the fact that people who ***** about this represents very small % of an actual playerbase who enjoy this kind of change.