To me,

Yes they messed up with Ithil and Anor
They were supposed to be slow progression servers, with the feel of original SoA days. Take your time remember how it was. sort of thing

Then came the moaners and whingers as always. And within 2yrs both servers were at similar level to other Live servers, that had taken 14 yrs to reach

Posters are complaining already about the population of both the new servers, stating that they should close them down already cos populace is low.

NOT everyone wants level cap straight away
We now have a proper choice of how to get there

1: Slow game server with long duration between releases
2: Not so slow game server with shorter duration between releases
3: Live server up to date normal game speed

And we even have the option to make it tougher thanks to the new combat system

And once you raced to level cap what then ..... "Dear SSG we want more content, we stuck at level cap and fed up of grind"