@el_mago
my opinion: yes, i believe DCs are unfun, but i have a hard time believing your alt is far enough along to be in a division where DCs make it unfun for it....unless, of course, you spent a lot of money on your experiment.
The whole point of the OP is that there are no DataCrons in the alt's GAC run. Neither DCs possessed by the alt nor by the opponents.
Of course you have a hard time believing the alt is far enough along to have DCs make GAC unfun.
The OP is saying that GAC is very fun for the alt (no datacrons), and unfun for the 9.5M account (with datacrons).
I never liked GAC much, so whatevs. But I know that for lots of people Datacrons do ruin the fun, and I have no problem believing the OP ran the experiment and found that GAC is still fun (for them) without DCs even though it's not fun for them on the account with DCs.
I appreciate your work, OP, and hope you continue to have fun in whichever account(s) you end up playing.