I dont share his opinion and I think the games charm is in all the classes screwing eachother over. Melee only is superboring and lame. And siege is a good provider of more closeup fighting, when Battle isnt. But yea I agree that why not host a meleeonly server to those who only want to play melee. Not gonna affect me anyway. Buuuuuuut ofcourse the sad truth really is that it died. The irony was never more painful when the forums where filled with "QQ archers and cav ruin this mod" threads while the meleeonly server was like a desert almost 24/7.
So I think the real problem isnt the haters, but just finding the playerbase for it.