Maybe. But since WPvP is not a mainstream activity like Raiding/Dungeoneering/Rated PvP, with only War Mode in this expansion doing something for WPvP in many years - many players still think that it’s an activity just to waste some time PvPing when you don’t have anything important to do.
And it is viewed as “don’t have anything important to do” and not “anything else” - just look how many players don’t want War Mode / WPvP / Open world to be rewarding and want anything but PvP talents removed.
Maybe 8.2 is going to change this perception, and maybe Open World + WPvP is going to be a full fledged game mode, maybe even more guilds and communities is going to be created for WPvP or with it in mind at least. I sure hope so, and going to add:
P.S.: Want to join WPvP guild / community, or tell others about yours - go here and DO IT
in my posts from time to time to keep it going.
Guild Wars/Sharding could be the case of “don’t know what they want until you show them”. As many other improvements and additions to WPvP.
Current perception of WPvP by many players is already set. So to change it - game must change first, to show that something that wasn’t a real game mode before - is now. Because that what War Mode is - Open World + PvP game mode.