Nowadays it's even better than it was originally, because the server list is now unified. Demo, S1 and S2 can all race together, the only limitation is the content. As soon as some content/features are enabled on a server that are not available to the "lower" tier, people from this lower license level obviously can't join. When S3 is released it's most likely that Demo, S1 and S2 will still work as they do now. Of course the devs could change the conditions, but I don't see that happening.