It sucks! Yes, being part of the majority not in game really is irritating.
Think about the what-ifs if you will. Day 1: they slam the servers with all the players.
Servers become corrupt after a few hours ie crash, overheat, just unable to handle the load. Once the meltdown has occured you now have everyone doubling down on figuring out what went wrong, how it went wrong, and how do we fix this quickly. All the while everyone not just the majority are not playing and mashing the f5 looking for new info.
So your average day of pulling your hair out keeping your fingers crossed it doesnt go south in a big ball of flames now turns into an all nighter with now finish to day 1 in site.
I'm not saying im happy they are doing what they are doing. Just saying I understand.