Wow, I had no idea you had it in you to complete a somewhat intelligent statement.
The way I look at the current LPC clanning community isn't even about "fun" it's literally the modern day "adapt or die" mentality. Take Trauma & Imperial, Trauma turns MPC and starts accepting mithlords. Obviously Imperial who are in an intense rivalry are going to retaliate with ultimately accepting mithlords and raising their combat cap to compete. Then what happens? The rest of the "lpc's" need to adapt or literally die/close. The literal multi clanning ties into this whole ordeal because why make a new level 90 pure with 20 defense when you could just use your HPC for both "lpc" trips and "hpc" trips when it easily meets each criteria.
You and me have both seen on private servers where people decide to stay 1 defense only to see that one clan who may not being doing so good to up to 30 - 35 to get the upper hand. This is where the entire system falls and clans must decide to even the playing field or suffer a drastic disadvantage.