Gonna join this club (or rather.. been a member for a while....) As Sy Sperling said in 1984: “I'm not only the Hair Club president, but I'm also a client.”
Can't agree more with all these points. The majority of GBs have become anachronistic - well most are, some always were. Some were "click (aka build) bait", and still are.
The modern game of FoE is going to challenge members to strongly consider a small count of buildings, and yes it's easy to see that but for some, it's very hard to internally decree and then execute a GB RAZE.
Many people won't buy the fact that you can get 30-100 warriors a day from event buildings (especially with a few Blue Galaxy doubles...) without a TRAZ - but you can.
The TRAZ is sacrosanct, to some.
If people have trouble with deleting ANY GB, they have to muscle through it.
Especially GBs taking space in their city and below level 10/20 or 30.
GBs worth saving? It's all about "boost".........The ones that have had a strong design boost or multiple from day 1, and still do: AO, *BG, CF... *(regardless of it's current cap of 15 charges)
I'll be frank. The value of FP has gone way down if you're essentially done lifting your GB's and they're in a "highly functional" range. Even the ARC. People making tons of FP each day now have NOTHING important to do on their own buildings, but need to DUMP the collected and earned FP on something - so onto their ARCS it goes.
Everyone has their own list, but a general rule of thumb for helping save important GBs are pretty clear.
So 1 more thought to the pile of ideas here: Extend a few "CAPPED" GBs in the current offering.
Like the BG.