A world reset would lose all progress, all resources and that would include those that spent TA funds to increase repair time and cp limits. They would be very unhappy. There is no technical way setup to refund them TA funds spent.
Whilst nothing is 'technically impossible' it's not going to happen. If they were going to reset it would be done by now.
The top alliances (2 out of top 5) seem to be able to progress perfectly OK with the current map not hindering progress. 3 out of top 5 are in the NE and the other 2 are in a normally distributed sector.
Good players will adapt!