Given that you've provided no reason for this other than to supposedly make a superficial statistic feature looked at by a small percentage of player and meaningful to even fewer players more useful by draining hundreds of thousands of gold from an economy that can't sustain it (and it can't - your experiences in your realms are not indicative of every realm on every continent), I don't think it's us fabricating excuses or senseless positions.
I don't understand most of your post, except for the bit about the game being unable to sustain a smaller gold circulation.
That is false. Years ago the circulation was smaller, and it was spread over a larger amount of players. Due to repeated tax system changes, as well as the outflow of players, the current gold circulation is comparatively bloated. This is true for all realms in the game. No realm today has as many characters as was typical in the past. No realm today has the tax system of the past. Realms today are all richer than they would be in the past. The particulars may vary, but all realms today are comparatively rich.
So there is no risk of realms being sucked dry by these top twenty players and being unable to fight wars. That is an absurd notion which doesn't hold up to any amount of scrutiny.
