Random start timers is meant to annoy people, its to add unpredictability to WoE.
I'm not really going to refute your opinion on the castles and guilds because you were looking at those ideas as individual ideas. Which I said, picking and choosing the suggestions wouldn't work, but if they were all implimented, they all balance eachother out. It's a package idea, all or nothing. I mean, I know nothing is going to change, but people were talking about how to better WoE, and so I thought I'd tell them how to do it.