Hyperborea was a good idea, it needed to be made. It was an interesting experiment.
My belief is that this world was far too slow for a non-conquest world. If it was 2-2 it would have been workable. 3-3 would be crazy, I would love to have seen that.. It seemed much slower than a 1-1 world though, but I could be wrong.
I will continue to play Hyperborea until it closes, but I feel we lost many players who's first and only world was hyperborean.