The rules are clear from the ICE rulings. These rulings were not presented in the 2018 discussion. No one mentioned that ICE specifically changed the rules to prevent abuse. The vote was presented as "
Which option is right?" If this were to be voted on, it's misleading to just present 4 options. The vote would really needs to be presented as "
This is the ICE ruling and it was designed to do this, this, and that. Would you like to overturn the ruling?" This is a question of game balance, not a question of which rule is correct. I would appreciate hearing from any Veteran players that direct MECCG tournaments over the past years to give their opinion on the balance issue.
The problem with just voting on things is that there are hundreds of players still playing by the original ICE rules who don't vote on the CoE ARV. These votes fragment the dwindling player community further into people who remember and play by the original rulings and the 50 other people that voted. Maybe some people didn't bother to vote because the 2018 ARV was completely full of non-issues and rulings already decided by ICE 23 years ago. Out of the 42 votes there are barely a handful of actual issues that were decided: Ringwraith Followers, Deep Mines movement, and Akhôrahil's RW ability.
And look at the 2019 ARV: there are 104 posts presenting over 130 questions. I just looked through all of the posts again
viewtopic.php?f=68&t=4077. There are 5 at most that maybe worth voting on. Many of the proposal simply want to rewrite the rules for less benefit than the confusion they cause. Basically none of the proposals mention the ICE rulings already covering the situation. And the others fail to describe the example situation in terms of the rules.
Of course, it's just my opinion that the ARV proposals are non-issues. But I'm not sitting here asking 50-100 people to spend 70 hours reading and deciding all of these proposals, especially when the person proposing the vote hasn't even bothered to spend 5 minutes using Ctrl+F to see how ICE decided the game should be played.