So your solution is to pray for change? Lol
I don't have a solution either, but let me just say the time period you're describing is vastly different. The problem back then was pure clans bringing mains. This time it's different, as certain pure clans are in alliances with main clans. Those pure clans are acting as minions to their main clan overlords, funneling their members into said mains clans, or making them go inactive as they cba participating in an arrangement like this. <- THIS leaves their remaining members bringing mains, it's NOT the other way around. Yes, mains have and will always be part of pure clanning, but this crashwar cycle seems to have no end. And those pure clans are so deep in it they can't pull out. For whatever reason, it seems some of those clans are kept alive by weekend trips (and midweeks, but they don't prove much in terms of a clans performance imo), as they refuse to do both P2P preps and F2P preps. Nowadays there's barely even any minis going on.
If you actively log on every weekend to support your clan, kudos to you. But you can't seriously be telling me you're having a great time in this scene.