Not in the least.
I'm saying you can wage small-scale war while rebuilding your regions, instead of being 100% one thing for months and months, then switching the other way 100%.
Nor did I say "do this or the game will die". I am pointing out another part of this game I think is very unattractive to newer players and saying I think you should consider this when discussing your "player retention" campaign.
Putting hyperbolic words into my mouth that I never said or hinted at is also deeply unhelpful, Timothy.
Conflict escalates, and always very quickly. There is no such thing as "small-scale war while rebuilding your regions", as both parties always want to win these conflicts, and will dedicate more and more of their resources to the fight, mutually forcing each other to quickly use full force. Because, after all, if you let troops pass by, then they will destroy your reconstruction efforts.
And you clearly haven't seen the undead spawns of the South. The North didn't get those. We needed our full military strength just to deal with these.
As for rebuilding, if you only take half the forces you otherwise would have, it takes you about 4 times the time to fix the region, if not more.
I too wonder why you joined the realm who hasn't been in a war since 2005 if battle is what you seek, though.