I would say that the lack of new leaders is more subjective than objective depending from where you play from...and considering the sheer amount of stress and expectations in filling a KD from 22 to 25 and then leading it competitively in the Modern Uto era is much more crushing, especially for a rookie monarch.
At least we can agree on something like the auto-fill Palem...
I just will just go the distance and advocate for lower KD sizes to create more competition (15 is too much; 20/21 ideal)..and I can come up with logical and balanced reasoning that can make sense in the long run
I mean we can admit that in top kd play...there will be an avg of 2 players sitting the whole war. Not ideal but its not irrational that some players would like to play OOW only and let the monarch or other players sit for them during war.
With top KDs warring avg 3-4 times per age...a player can have enough sitting credits to do so.
My point being KDs also never play with a full roster during crunch time anyways...which can save extra stress to any monarch running a tight war.