[BloodyButcher]

Obviously the suggestion was made to make it harder to make "private gals", id guess?
Removing exiles from the early parts of the round would make "exile strats" less viable.
And there is very few inactive players in this game now days, but also very few indipendible players, most are used to their alliances sorting their attack/defence/strat, so organizing their own gal might be unkown to most.