yea, even though i am only benefitting from it should there be buffs from it, and i dont lose any of the exp i am taxed on, i severely dislike how your province being claimed is just an process you dont have any influence or say in, this hasnt changed from before thingwalls, villages and inhabitants dont need too be subjugated, or brought intoo the fold or something. they are just collateral expfarms , eventually fueling the kindoms of the people that pose the biggest threath to them. with the only way of evading that, to join an realmbuilding faction, or never to log in again. there is no wild or disbuted territory, rebellions, neutral ground ,or hermitages there are just provinces part of an kingdom and provinces that will eventually be made part of an kingdom.
if the exptax is the reward for the realm. you should have too conquer people. not set up an shitty flag at the "fuck distance trees"
as soon as realmstage nonrealm people are just inconsequential. its not like the tax would accomplish the only thing it was set out too do: disentivising you too regulary cull the population in your own realm .