The only issue that I have with the Adept system is that it creates a status quo which I think is fairly artificial. Some people have pointed out that the Adepts tend to be clumped in geographic groups that do not represent the Legacy meta as a whole.

I believe this gives us a skewed view of what is effective because the best players on the Source also tend to play each other a lot and so their efforts tend to be directed at defeating a relatively small subset of decks.

When we have surprising results from a remote tournament those results tend to be dismissed as a random event, followed by our local tournaments largely playing what they were playing previously and the status quo is upheld.

I'm not saying any of this is wrong or inherently flawed, just that it does tend to create a more stagnant meta for conversation and development, leading directly to things like CANGD... The source Adepts should be on CANGD most of the time, not just when Threshold (or whatever) has bored them to tears.

Even the really good new decks that emerge, like Dreadstill, ITF and FT, are often just variants of earlier efforts or attempted merges.

Just my opinion.