Absolutely NO. I very much enjoy everything that you proposed to axe.

Crashes are rather rare for me in recent years.

Cyrodiil for me has always had iffy performance.

If you read through old threads you'll notice that people have virtually always complained about the balance and performance in Cyrodiil.

Absolutely not. I would not roll back years worth of progress. I also don't think ZOS should ride in on a pegasus and fling candy at random people passing by their headquarters. I feel like there's better uses for a pegasus.

Why not ask for a playable ESO Base game only version instead?

IMO the issues having nothing to do with new content and everything to do with poor decision making. Stuff like:
• Character Animations butchered around Dark Brotherhood, to allow for an Active Ability + Light Attack to animate at the same time
• Combat Balance handled by a spreadsheet, to standardize balance which removes the need for Devs to intricately understand their game
• Zone Quest storylines (particularly for DLCs) do not end in their zone, but rather carry on throughout a larger storyline. As a new player, your chances of becoming confused by traveling to zones outside of the intended chronological order is 100%. Also Account Wide Achievements causing random NPC dialogue about your character to get mixed up with your other characters. Goodbye immersion.

Combat was more fun in the past but I also don’t care much anymore. Im playing this game far less and would rather not delete everything I’ve accomplished over the years.

Yet Blizzard has made a fortune with a continued spray of Classic versions of WOW. Every version of WOW released as "Classic". And when that ran out they reinvented a "new" classic version Season of Discovery. And now that "Down Under Classic rework". Got to wonder how many times players will return to kill Hogger? Part of their reasoning was all of the private WOW servers. I'm not familiar with any private ESO servers.

But ZOS has answered this before and said there would be no classic ESO. I'm not even sure which "version" would be classic. You remember ESO wasn't that great on release? I remember the time around 610 CP and there wasn't a lot of proc sets. And that would probably only appeal to the PVP market and when sliced up, this would probably not be that many players.

How about we shut down Cyrodiil and Imp City? Problem solved ...

No, I am kidding, ofc. The issue is multi layered and has many aspects. And so the resolution to this is naturally difficult, takes a long time and considerable commitment by ZOS.

And the truth is that ZOS doesn't really know what it is that causes so much strain on the servers.
Maybe it is how healing works?
Maybe it is the fact that the entire character's data sheet is loaded into PvP?Maybe its the script heavy combat encounters?
Maybe it is the many set piece effects, that have to be checked for?
Maybe it is just the old engine and the legacy code?
Maybe it is the synchronicity between different clients at different fps?
Maybe it is the combination of everything?

All I can say for sure, is that when I experience performance drops, it is because my client cannot handle high amounts of players at the same time. Basically meaning the more players are causing visual effects and/or combat effects, the slower my client gets. That is my observation.
When I play Cyrodiil during events or for farming Cyro stuff on Alts, I have no issues. I go into NoCPNoProc and there is almost noone there. My client stays at 60fps and the server connection is between 66ms and 83ms. It is very consistent and I have no problems at all.
But when I go to West Weald and do Mirrormoor Incursions during prime time, I get low fps consistently. When 30 players and their companions start their flashy rotations at the same time, my client goes into "no, not me, not today" mode.

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If people are that unhappy for so long, why not look for another game. It will not magically change after 10 years now.

Pretty sure there's currently no games with PvP like eso presents with more or less similar mechanical side to it, read: combat system. That's pretty obvious people would want their experience back and enhanced. People don't want it to change, they want it to work. Asks for changes to PvP might only refer to the subjective better balanced times with better performance.

Even if they could do a roll back, we would not get better performance for doing it.

No, because performance wouldn't be improved.

I agree with the concept for sure. I lack the confidence it would help though. ZOS would figure out a way to make it a boon for profits without helping the players much.

It is overly generic as we do not know what patch it would be rolled back to. Granted, it could not occur in a poll question, not very well at least.

With any rollback, we would easily give up the archive and the Group finder since they are fairly recent additions. Even then, the performance was not good. It would probably take rolling back to much earlier days of the game, sometime before I joined up here. That means a lot of homes, mounts, outfits, and motifs. Then there is the reason it will not happen: the revenue that would have to be returned from crown and expansion sales.

I mean if something this drastic was actually gonna happen, they'd be better off moving pvp to its own server, with none of the rest of the game included. Or starting a new classic eso server.

Rolling back the entire game to an earlier time based on a hope that pvp would work better seems far-fetched to me, and would be sure to alienate a vast amount of the player base.

Of course, since I don't really pvp, I'd rather they reduce or eliminate dev and server resources allocated to pvp to focus on improving the parts of the game I like. But, I don't think that'd go over very well either, and I'm not actually the kind of person who would request they remove everything I don't personally like from the game.