Yes, because when there aren't a lot of players it's perfectly fine placing warpers without causing lag. However, Classic has been keeping at 2000+ players for a while now and with that many players staff weren't allowed to place warpers. Guess what happened? There were no events. Players moaned and groaned about the lack of events, so a system was put into place so players could actually participate in events without lagging the server... and everyone whines anyways.

It's like a broken record, simply because the same handful of players can't get into events over and over and other players actually get a chance to have fun now too.

How often staff host events is not something I really deal with, that's for higher staff. Also realize Classic has no Events team so it's GPs doing the hosting, and the more GPs are hosting events, the less work is being done towards reports and uploads.