-People lose their buffs because population drops and there's not enough to upkeep buffs, now everyone in said realm has one more reason/excuse to quit
-Realm owners who want to minmax should just hog all the Authority for themselves and invest it on their private hq well (combine this with a "rugpull" where they initially offer generous realm buffs, only to turn them off once they think enough rubes have settled in the Realm.)
(Haven't I already made this thread you ask? Kind of, but it's more unfocused/cacophonous: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=79478&p=960537&hilit=realm#p960537 you can go dicuss thre I guess if you have more complicated Realm rework idea you'd prefer to not make a thread of its own for.)