I actually uninstalled after playing for a day when I really started to think about putting up with SoL xpac and AA grinding all over again.
Fired up an Enchanter on P99 instead.
It's a shame there couldn't be some world where we had Vanilla, Kunark, Velious, no SoL, and still have PoP for the raiders. Bottom line is, PoP is great fun for raiding but it is fucking boring as all fuck for grouping / casual play. By the time you are in PoP, the gear inflation makes all of the really fun previous expansions completely pointless. I do not want a game where PoP is the endgame and the greatness of Kunark / Velious is trivialized and made a ghost town.