Maybe this is like a country wide terraform conspiracy ordered by the ozzy government. Send them funnel web spiders, heat the planet so they wear santa hats on the beach and give them high ESO ping so they can feel our pain.Welcome Europe, this is what nearly every MMO ever has been like for Australia.
Its a pain but not that bad. I would love to have a server here but its not going to happen. They have plans to move it and complaining here wont change that schedule, they are very aware of how unpopular lag is. Given how late its been I can only imagine there are last minute data center issues holding it up.