Post is very well written but I disagree with almost everything said.
I'm not a whale, maybe dolphin. I'm causal player and I'm playing this game for about an year. I look for non hardcore guilds where I don't need to go through any complex planning and where discord is not used. For 30+M guild with few 1.5+M players and rest being somewhere between 50-400k, TW bonuses are super interesting because they bring variety. I want to see those bonuses in all arenas as well.
What I'm trying to say is that there is no solution which would work for everyone. There will be a large population of players who prefer TWs with bonuses over Vanilla TWs and that's why we should have both rotating as it is done now.
I can't see how GA could work without those 24 hour phases. People play at different times and you can't force 8 people to sync and make the whole season done in day or two. It is never going to work.
Btw. you are winning GA because it was introduced too late and people who invested little bit to a lot of characters don't stand a chance against people who have very focused teams and keep rest of their roaster on lvl 1 and even don't upgrade characters. If people knew about that sooner, they could build their roaster differently. There is also aspect of Active GP vs Total GP if GA season is not using ships. I stopped upgrading ships I'm not using regularly to not inflate my GP.
