Hey guys it is a matter of time. Developing for server merges would take much more time than transfers. There are a lot of conflicts to automatically resolve (more than 8 chars, same char/legacy names etc). This way they can delegate some of the work to us (name changes) and roll server transfers much sooner. We are talking months sooner. I firmly believe that if they went for mergers they wouldn't be ready before september.
So i repeat, it is a matter of time. I wouldn't be surprized if they merge/close dead servers by the end of the year.