1. Alliance is heavily outnumbered and like the post above me stated, we prefer to just quest and try to reach end game content as soon as possible. Horde for some reason on this server are weaponized autism and prefer to roll around and camp lowbies or do 5v1 matches. I don't get it, but they aren't in the wrong.
2. Those of us that have played this before know that once the BGs are released, this pretty much just dies. A lot of them are doing this now because it is a cheap and easy way to get ahead of the honor system before the patch rolls out.