Where is it all going

Thanks to the contributors.  I feel that this open discussion will at least highlight issues so that the devs cannot ignore it. Even if the discussion has no visible effect, I think it will generate internal concern and debate which is a goog thing, Seeing as the issue of Finance has been touched on, I will in the future highlight publicly available data which has a bearing on the situation.

There are a number of harvesters, and some crafters and traders, but not as many as people like to think.

specialisms develope over time. its simply a matter of degree and activity. there are no mutually exclusive categories.

@Developers,

how difficult would it be to open up a different server, and keep the old one as well?

That has been previously discussed, their answer was Broken Lands to be separate but not zero interaction.  You can already see with some of the recent wars the difficulty is doing things like sieges across the bitter sea.