True Funcom doesn’t owe us the option of a classic server, though if people were happy with just an old version of the game they may have, I’m sure Funcom could revert a couple dead servers to this, with no new cost.
But, since they wouldn’t release the save files for the servers they merged years ago so people could enjoy their games and builds, I can’t see them ever releasing to us an old version of the game so we could host our own.
Wishful thinking. (It’s still funny to me that Wildcard did it with Ark and saved many, many people years of work)