Just going to post a close variation on what I posted on the official boards (edited due to changed context).
People's ability to deny reality never ceases to amaze me. The article's couple of paragraphs on the Trammel go something like this.
1-90% of population goes to Trammel and doesn't look back.
(So logically that means most people didn't want the Fel lifestyle.)
2-Someone says that somehow this was the "beginning of the end."
(What? Based on all available empirical data it helped, not hurt.)
3-Someone else says subscriptions doubled after Trammel.
(So not only does this mean most players don't want the Fel lifestyle, but that Fel was actually a problem for the UO brand name. People stayed away because of it.)
4-Same person then says Trammel was somehow a problem because it cost UO the hard-core PKers.
(Umm...what? Based on the information provided, they were a problem...)
And yet I still keep reading here and other boards, time and time again, about how Trammel killed UO, how successful player run shards are that have Fel only, etc.
(Umm....What?)
Oh well. We're living in the post-fact, post-truth world now. When UO finally does shut down these folks will blame Trammel even though the available evidence suggests the polar opposite and even though the end of UO by definition will have occurred decades after Trammel.