I am not saying that top guild will go (back) to Alliance because of Alliance WFR with no further incentives, but it will shed some light on the current top Alliance guilds and encourage activity and competition on Alliance side.
Which is why Blizzard should take the opportunity to show appreciation for the testing by making a fair global event out of it.
Here is an analogy of the faction situation we are in right now:
Two children are living with their neglecting parents in a world where there are no child protection servises or anything like that. They are twins born on the same day. The child named Horde is liked and embraced by their parents and are popular within the community. Their twin named Alliance is mostly being ignored, but get spanked whenever they show they are capable of anything. Alliance doesn’t have any friends either.
The date closes in on their birthday and their parents allow them to celebrate the birthday as they want. However, the parents only will be around to pick up trash, do the dishes, and repair anything that breaks.
Horde is celebrating their birthday with the community and have a great day. Meanwhile the Alliance is crying all day alone in their room.
What I am arguing for is that as long as the parents are as neglecting as they are, the community should take the responsibility to arrange a decent birthday for both the Alliance and the Horde, where the Alliance is included and can have a good day making friends.
You are here again only stating Blizzard’s and the community’s current approach, meanwhile I am arguing for what they should do.
The question about faction removal is a tad complicated. My opinion is that as long as WoW is intended to be a two-faction MMO with distinct faction wall, regardless of how neglected the faction balance is, a faction merge without a new faction replacement is a bad thing as it destroys WoW as a two-faction game. So no, I am not in favour of faction removal only to save PvE regardless of how dead the Alliance is.
The only faction removal I would like to see is a faction merge based upon the faction development in the lore. And indeed, the lore have been going in this direction since TBC, and I am even arguing for an effective faction merge happening in 10.0 here: Let's have a faction merge in 10.0!
It is due to that thread that I really do not want to have the faction removal/merge discussion here too because the subject in this thread is about making Alliance playable until a faction merge actually happens. There is no help saying that Alliance is dead and the only solution is a faction merge if it takes blizzard another 5 expansions to implement it without backfire from the half of the players that ideologically opposes faction merge.
What are we Alliance players to do until then?