They basically ran out of ideas on how they could fleece players. Perhaps their whales had also dried up so the grand master plan was to wipe the server and make things even more imbalanced and p2w.

Rohan pservers only appeared after the epics farce. They haven't gone away and now EV based pservers (with fixed skills and balancing) are in development. If a group of amateurs can fix this game in a heartbeat, WHY THE **** CAN'T YOU PLAYWITH?