I do believe you, just saying its a bit someone official cant post a message to let us all know whats going on,
Gates of Discord unlocked at 3pm PST, on the dot. Get thee to Abysmal Sea! This. A few people asked me directly if I could "flip the switch" on Gates and I explained that I could not. As we saw when I tried this when Planes of Power launched, the scripts that govern expansion unlocks would likely re-lock the expansion until the scripts were satisfied that it was the right time.
The Berserker Tomes vendors are up in Plane of Knowledge. It takes several minutes for spawns with expansion unlock requirements to activate.
Berserker tome vendors are 10 minutes late. Expansion is ruined, unplayable! Unsubscribed. But actually seriously, well done on the expansion release seeming to go as planned, more or less.