Automating systems that encourge players not to bother to interact with each other because they no longer need to is bad for the games community. Period. The game from the ground up was built to faciliate co-operation and when you remove that it ceases to exist.
The majority shouldn’t suffer because of dead servers, my own server died and we reluctantly took the free transfer. Server population is something that’s on the devs to solve, throwing out the games core design to do that is ridiculous.