This topic is meant to be for discussion about what is changing during a maintenance. So the discussion is about an issue which isn't being changed this maintenance, especially when there is so much back and forth, is preventing that talk from happening which makes it be considered off topic.
So some posts will be removed to help players talk about what is happening this coming week.
As for other topics being locked, when one point is repeated and the discussion has fallen into an argument the topic would be locked at that point. That being said the production team is aware of the wishes of both sides of this issue and in the future will either make changes or not based on their internal metrics rather than responding to those who are making the most requests here on the forum.
Thank you for a comprehensive answer, I really appreciate it. You should know though, nobody on this server really cares about the event beyond exploiting it for WoE. I'm not trying to justify the back and forth arguments, but it is what it is.