So Connections did come up in the Q&A. The Shadowlands launch did end up taking precedence (Honestly understandable, although they should have given themselves more time for the connections), but they didn’t want to continue with the connections straight afterwards due to lessons learned from when they first connected servers (It was just before WoD, and they didn’t expect returning players causing queues and lag on the newly connected servers).
There was no mention of a new round of mergers being planned, just that they will act if they need to.
That’s all we got, more or less. I understand and can appreciate their reasons for ‘pausing’ (Their specific word) the connections, but I’m not satisfied in the least. It has taken forever for them to finally say something, and it’s not really of any real help…