1. Don't know.
2. Completely true. Best looking MMO I've ever seen.
3. True, but much less so after 20.
4. TRUE. Don't group with them, and try to avoid PvP with them.
5. After you get used to it, it's not spectacular, but it's still a nice improvement. Spellweaving is not practical for solo (no one to defend you while you are having mana-induced seizures).
6. No one knows.
7. YES! Some things are much better, some things are much worse, but everything changes after 20.

Solo WILL be viable, but at the moment it is much more viable for certain classes than others.
Until they get that balanced out, you might want to try the more solo-friendly classes.

Crafting is a DISTRACTION?!

Listen, I live for the crafting. It's what I do. I guess I'll be passing on this one then...
*sniff* Warhammer understands me... *sniff*

You could argue then, that because Tetris is simple, Tetris makes you stupid...

But you would be wrong.

No, a simplified game cannot make you less intelligent. Speaking l33t might ruin your grammar, but it doesn't make you less intelligent either. A game might have aspects that attract these people, but it does not cause them.

My computer is more than a year and a half old, so I can't play AoC. :(

I guess I'll have to stick with WoW. It's really not THAT bad.

"I forgot to mention that I'm an RPer, so PVE servers are out of the question."

Yes, because it's so much more immersive to be repeatedly spawn-ganked by xXxKillerxXx.

Why does everyone want there to be a WoW killer?

It's more likely to keel over and die of old age than another game.

Well, many gamers have come to use the term 'zerg' in a different context in the very specific case of arena/battleground PvP.

In most contexts, zerg does mean to swarm or overwhelm by numbers.
In this context, it means running THROUGH the battle without fighting in order to reach some objectve (an NPC boss, or in this case, the enemy keep).

Since you can't actually 'stop' people from advancing, they can just run through your polygons and past the defenses in large numbers.

Yes, but when the official strategy is as follows:

Crash the other team's computers.

Then you have a problem.

I don't have too much hope for any MMOs so far. Except for one.

World of Starcraft FTW!