I just wanted to weigh in on one of your points. You wrote:
I think celestrial is a great Raid leader... and with gundorf gone for a while most people leaned on her for most raids. I have noticed that she greatly reduced her RvR raids to more TOA raids ever since it came out.
Yes, Celest has led a lot of ToA raids. It quickly became apparent that if we were to keep up in RvR, we had to do ToA (blame Mythic). Celest quickly stepped up to the plate and started leading ToA artifact and ML raids. Sure, she could have stopped once she got a few artifacts and some ML levels under her belt, but she didn't. She knew that others needed it too if they were to be able to compete. We all looked to her as leader of the alliance to help us, and she didn't disappoint us. Many of us have now attained ML10 now thanks to her and we can once again dominate RvR. I don't mean this as a contradiction to what you said, or for kissing Celest's a.., what I mean to show by it is that we have a great alliance that can and does do anything to show why it is great.
Just my 2 cents.