"Yet another person missing the point that competition is healthy as it makes the servers strive to be better and to grow."
Yes, but _most_ of servers use one of the public softwares out there. They only make custom stuff themselves.
For emulation point of view, where you want to progress on emulating the world to be blizzlike, it doesn't matter how the private servers are. It doesn't matter whos on top and whos not.
But apparently i don't have any reason to trying to explain this to you since you're part of the private server crew who know nothing about the real people and real work being done to even allow anyone to run a server.
And btw, servers might strive for better, do some custom stuff, but thats all _server_ only, they don't release this stuff to others. Absolutely no progress being done there.