HC Era (Vanilla) is fine. In my view there’s a decent balance between risk and reward.
In most areas there are also decent possibilities to mitigate events like a full res or even a hyper res situation if you are attentive and cautious.
TBC is a completely different beast though.
And if people are supposed to keep their characters like in Era, this would definitely require at least one TBC Era realm as transfer target to receive dead characters.
What do you mean? Soda only mentioned that his planned guild restart is postponed from Oct to November for good reasons. That’s all he said and it’s a known fact since August/September.
What others did with this info doesn’t matter. Why bother.