Interesting.
I followed that quote to it's original thread and read something I really really need to comment on. So here are my apologies for mixing threads.
The entire point of having gold is to make war. I would find very little satisfaction in sitting in my region all day, heaping up gold and having nothing to spend it on. Don't blame the lords who like the region management game, blame the lords who don't share their gold for the greater good, i.e. war.
Then kick the bastards out.
And yet those who like region management also tend to be the ones too greedy to share, ipso facto the region management ones are the ones needing to be blamed.