Nothing good has ever come from knee-jerk radical policy changes on LotC. The battle is a slow uphill slog, you can't treat the forest from termites with napalm.
The Administration does a lot more behind the scenes than one can imagine. I was close friends with a couple of past ones and they were unable to dedicate any time to RPing, whereas it seemed from my POV they have just gone inactive- which really isn’t the case.