Honestly, and this is just my personal opinion that I haven't been shy about sharing lol, I think the game is designed for teams of 8-12 (maybe 16) players. The game gets rather crammed and spammy when you start adding that many and some gameplay mechanics break down.
Mind you I have nothing against people wanting large servers and who enjoy playing on them (and I think there should be servers to enable that to happen, especially once they fix some of the issues they're having currently), but I recommend 24-32 player max servers and see how your experience is then. I just found a 12v12 server US East Coast tonight and I likely won't play on any other servers for a while now lol (unless they're also 12v12).
personally i find 32 people to less people thers almost no teamwork and people just do their own thing (scripts and mutators will change this i hope)
Im hoping for slightly bigger maps with 128 players server like with the old renegade
those where good times
but there have always been a divide between people who like low player limit vs high player limit
i sincerely hope that server owners get to setup their own limits eventually and not be dictated by a forced limit