The arena split had nothing to do with "fair", or "balancing" the teams. It had everything to do with the subscription growth rate. Before the split, no growth, after the split, growth.
Whether the split helped the growth or not is not for anyof us to decide. HTC believes it and so they will stick to it. Hitech has posted about how a smaller group can "govern" themselves, and in large groups the "individual" gets lost and becomes part of a group that can no longer be "governed" by the rest of the group. To me this sounds like a mindless horde runs the arena when it gets to big. While a smaller group, through peer pressure can govern it's self better. Smaller caps = healthier arenas. Dynamic must be used to "herd" people into the 2 arenas because they are too stupid to regulate themselves.
If this game was more like the old says with combat and squad rivalries and such then some squads could make blue their home and others could make orange their own and there wouldn't be a as many complaints about caps. Everyone would have their "home" arena and would be able to fly with their squadmate , and/or the same "friends" all the time.
Much like AW' Euro arena and PAC arena. People would migrate back and forth, but for the most part stayed in their "home" arena. But, we are all too stupid for that and MUST always play in the "popular" arena with the cool kids. Untill we( the community) can take this into our own hands and make one arena or the other evenly balanced on our own, there will always be complaints about caps.
So basically what I'm saying is if your in here complaining about caps, it's your fault, not HTCs!