To be fair, while I wasn't there at the founding, I think the main difference between Westgard and the rest, regarding monsters, is that we embraced our situation, rather than pity ourselves for it. I don't think that the players from AT and FEI really had a monster-killing theme in mind when they got lumped there, I think they rather just decided to go along with what they got. And that ever since, the players there have been focusing on "what can we do now, with the context we have", instead of "what could we do, some day, if X, Y, and Z weren't as they are now?".
Much of the continent has complained about not being able to do what they wanted because of the rogue invasions, but really, when the rogues waned, the only realm that really got out of its way to do something was... Westgard.
There are always a ton of opportunities, but everyone's always too busy playing it safe.
