Less servers wont be implemented, but it would benefit the game.
People, especially europeans, are mindless beings who click on whatever server is available. New players will click on a map they know rather than a server with people. There's often times where theres 10 public servers of 2-5 people on them. With reduced servers, (and ideally improved maplists), people would be forced to play on a select few amount of servers, causing more full servers. I don't think many people have fun in empty servers. So, this eliminates that issue. Force people to play together, and bam you get more enjoyment in the game.
No reason to have more servers then players.
No reason to allow home-run servers to show up on server list. You're just allowing low-quality servers to ruin the game for new players. There's enough quality servers that home-run's should not show up on server list.