Can it be changed that total Sect donations includes only existing characters within the Sect?

I always thought that seemed kind of counter-productive. The Blade sect is how many millions of gold ahead of the other sects? That is never going to change, no matter how hard any individual (or even the entire sect) work to change it. It makes keeping track of how much each sect has donated (and the rewards that go along with that), kind of irrelevance since you're rewarding years upon years of history, rather than the current members within the cabal.