"Region Maintenance Master"
There really is no point in every person being a lord, other than some shiny buttons to press. This means people end up spreading out resources to every badland and two turn mountain region, cause everyone wants those buttons. I know it is a game and you want to take all the pieces, but it doesn't seem sound strategy. Often a city estate will offer more than any two of the realms backwater gold/food sinks.
How often are awesome recruitment centers outside a cities walls? How often are paraphernalia spread all over the place? I think Region Maintenance Master is taking away from Battlemaster in a big way.
We could have policed this as players. WE failed to do so. We all got greedy, wanted every title and medal and trinket. The freeze will help reign in the seduction of Regionmaster, and War Islands will help cure people of the terrible affliction.