The team should consider opening up the PvE server second.
The hardware is already there (the current Elysium server, and used for the stresstest with the Nost. core so it is already halfway prepared).
The population is small enough that it will really lose a big opportunity by being launched after the fresh start-server.
It just had a new content patch (AV) so you can just push it live as-is and then not look back for a few weeks.