Sure neutrals can take advantage of both good and evil ranking areas, but they don't get the xp bonus from alignment. So, even for neutrals ranking past 40 isn't quite so easy.

It may be even harder for neutrals than evils to rank from about 40+, I'm not sure on that count.

Then again, without the huge xp holes of years ago, we have all these heroes around, which shows that getting there isn't the big thing it used to be. It's almost common, as demonstrated by the idea of a global echo for getting there. Maybe heroing should be made harder again, but with a careful eye towards making sure it's balanced for all.

Me, I think there's a few too many heroes.