How long does something like that have to stand there before someone who is not in a leadership position is in the position to question the standing order?

As to the rest of what you said. Perhaps you are right, perhaps I don't know much about the new village anymore. Perhaps I am stuck in the past where it was truly a bunch of barbarians. Maybe I'm falling in with old timers like Abertyne (if they would have me) the old village and all its faults/likes/dislikes/and hardships. *shrug* Perhaps what the oldies are angry about is you took this cabal and changed it so much from its intial roots that if you still wanted to play an oldie you can't.

Change hurts.