Heres my 5 cents:
1. Servers max population is a fixed number, because BW wants the servers to be WELL POPULATED! If they just opened up servers with the highest number of slots availiable, all they would end up with would be 5-10 servers being FULL because of lack of server power, and 50 servers that were EMPTY because noone wants to play alone
THERES your reason...
2. I havent had a single crash yet, and i havent experienced a single queue yet either, just from being smart, picking the right server.
When that is said, i understand the frustration of people who have friends on a full server, or people being in a guild on a full server. BUT... Trust me when i say, things will be better! And no, im not payed by BW to say this, but you guys are just whining because you have a place to whine!