Well in the old days when you’ve been in the #1 position for more than half the age and someone gets into your range you could wave and take a lot of acres, war, or cf with acres. Right now it’s possible to get a free 1 week cf and give up minimal land (or even gain land) or trap someone in a never ending hostile like 4:15 did to 7:6. Right now being bigger and stronger doesn’t mean much when the other kd would never war.
That’s one thing I personally would like to see changed because you can work hard all age to achieve a top position then someone can get a lucky war and while you are stronger there is not a lot that you can do with autocf, throttling, etc.