Dan, fewer than 10% of Total Rewards players are 7 stars. Your advice and strategy is meaningless for everyone else -- and in fact could damage them if they made any attempt to follow it.
CET and TR and not disorganized -- they just aren't organized around your preferences.
It's been established for years that the new rules come out about April 1st because that's their fiscal year.
Keep doing what you're doing if you think it's best for you.