You can even consider the entire game with the ranking system. Obviously its obscure and majority dont even care, but just that introduction added value to old ***quest from game beginning.
I myself took some months to get my medal of altana just because. That before RoV KI. In the end, i still think its pretty much useless. And the effort just wasted.
Its always hit or miss. The ones who hit the jackpot can walk with their trophies for weeks/months till the rest catch up. The losers just can lick their wounds.
Cest la vie
since coalitions and all that stuff were part of the new audolin content it was kind of forseeable that it would channel at least in a some sort of accessory reward and the new jobs didn't have any REMA at that point either so...
Thats why i say its hit or miss. At that point it was all speculation. A lot of things were said and unsaid at that time. Population diminishing, etc.
Whats fact is how much drama went on those boards for the people who didnt had it done.
And dont forget that drama just got worse with Ygnas directive. That one im sure none could predict