NcSoft knows what they are doing
EVEN if IL and that kind of chronicles were AWESOME,they can't just stay there
in official servers people become bored,need updates
they putted SO many things.From Interlude to Freya it's 7 fckin chronicles.The updates till now were not so big
now , they see again game popularity fell VERY DOWN
they need to make a good update,that will give a new boost to game again
that's why u may see a perfect Interlude server,which can't live more than 1 year.It's MMORPG,it needs updates each some time
see some private servers that followed official route(update every 8-10 months) how they live till now
Conclusion of all this shit:
Updates are for a reason.We can't avoid them
no matter if it will be done better or worse,it's done for one purpose