I didn’t play for the first day and everything was fine. I saw a queue with 7000+ people the first time I tried but it cleared in like 2 minutes and I never saw it again. I guess if you tried to play the first day though you had to deal with the queue then constant server crashes losing progress and items.
The queue apparently happened because they forgot to run a pre-migrate option for characters so the system was trying to do a 2-3 minute conversion for each player as they logged in. To combat these queues they decided to let streamers bypass because they were paying said streamers the monies to influence things. It certainly had no measurable impact on anybody else, its just nobody likes watching people pass them in line.
So far I am liking the start, will see how long it holds my interest.