Wat has been around for ages and unlocking him doesn’t require that much. It’s a single mission that is easy to complete found in the most balanced of available TBs in an easy mission the most balanced TB in the game and is a perfectly reasonable requirement for a GL character. I could see reacting this way to KAM, but for Wat?? The toons needed are easy to farm, useful in meta, and don’t even need to be g12 to auto his mission...
I don’t think the issue here is the requirements, it’s your priorities. Geos are a meta team useful in every facet of the game both as characters and as pilots. They are critical in TW and TB and there is no reason any player, let alone a guild, to not have them. How you run your guild is your prerogative, but your choices do have consequences that won’t always be apparent initially. I’ve been running one for 5 years and the only way to sustain progress is to establish requirements, clear goals, and surround yourself with players whose desires align with them. If you choose to be in a casual guild, that is your right, but that choice forfeits present and future opportunities intended for serious guilds.
All that aside, GL’s are endgame content, (the only endgame content), and their requirements reflect that. GL kenobi, from what he have seen to date, is the most reasonable GL available.