Your point hinges upon ganking being a major contributor to the difficulty of cargo/dark sea runs. I don’t believe that and I don’t think anyone else does, so unless you can somehow prove this is the case your point isn’t very strong, and this change almost starts to seem like a good thing.
Judging by your profile it feels like you already have a conclusion in mind (ganking being a good thing) and want to come up with a set of reasons to justify your point rather than simply just accepting the result. Which can be further reinforced by the idea you clearly hate the people you disagree with.
Furthermore, your proposed solutions literally solves none of the problems you brought up.
This is literally the same end-result except now it’s not clan-gated and for some reason it’s file-locked.
This technically solves everything except marketplace values. You could have it gated by realm to complete the fix but I’m writing out this part for you.