The fact of the matter is that RP and improving LOTC have never actually been the staff agenda. The truth simply is that the only thing Admins care about is banning the people who make them cry by attacking their nations. In years past, doing this usually resulted in 100 comment threads with 200 upvotes that they were forced to ignore and take the backlash on. Now, with metaplay as a tool, it's easy to just drop a ban and call it metaplay, and no one will care.
By the way, the Haense bans were entirely justified and probably the only actual case of correct metaplay enforcement, if one wanted to keep this policy in place. Cudos to Josh for trying his best to enforce the shittery of other admins I guess.