Forgive me, I didn't take the time to read every single post, and I also don't bother paying attention to changes that don't affect pvp.
Mysticism was supposedly getting some love? Sounds more like stealthers because even more impossible to kill. Can't purge animal form, and timer on sleep. Absolutely stupid.
As far as getting rid of a faction, on populated shards you join one faction and you already take one or two big guilds out the faction pvp equation. One less faction = another enemy that aren't orange to you.
Reasoning why stealthers become even more invincible, and taking pvp away?