1) idling isn't abuse.
2) mobs are static because people were getting killed in load screens. They are the reason of complains in this same forum, even though plans are to introduce tribes no one has time to work on them it seems.
3) cd in public areas allows plenty of abuse even in limited range: blockades, cages and other disruptions including exactly those pics of people flying without having the proper equipment for it.
4) movable items will get performance worse. Those items aren't real items but a bigger item which includes other objects like a crate can actually be a crate together with whole buildings. Splitting them off will degrade performance. Other problems regarding what i call "setting items" is the problem of consistency between databases.
5) climbing also creates several problems which needs to be addressed. going off map could get you stuck forever requiring a gm to come save you, and they don't really have all this time to use for such reasons, or killing yourself.

Simply they aren't in the hosting business anymore there is nothing weird behind it.

there aren't proprietary drivers for intel cpu-gpu but there might be need to update the opensource ones to the latest version, also reducing the texture size is quite important.

also the other games in which set they are. directx is another thing. For example amnesia or penumbra are good comparisons skyrim is not.

i don't see the conflict between the two

if you want an event in the event calendar just contact gm.

no it's not the first day, but the time from the last hour switch till the server is back up is frozen.