5 active servers, 4 core and 1 RP.
The action on the two servers I have is hopping, there's no shortage of people.

Some of the new features are amazing, (new since i last played). Like loggin in to the war report and getting tele'd right to where the action is, as opposed to flying around looking for a good war band.

Its running smoother than ever, and i find that neither of my toons are as rigged as they once were. which kinda stinks, but all in all is prob a good thing.

Layoffs make sense since EA has a lot of the same systems already in place as mythic. I'd bet more layoffs were for things like Tech Support, Maintenance, Marketing, Accounting/Finance. All of those things are already taken care of by EA.

And this day in age, layoffs are pretty common id say. Even Blizzard had layoffs when Activision bought them.