No one is stopping you from starting or joining a FC. If you like to run with a group of friends, that's great!! I'm glad that you are having fun. Start a FC together and put your old FC friends in a LS if you just have to be on the FC ranking list. The world progression thread is for FC/LS. This list has always been and should remain a FC list.
The major complaint I've seen overall is the LS people helping FC statics / Joining other groups.

So tell me; whats stopping Asylum and 7M1H from making a new FC every week; or joining random FC's and carrying their tag to T9? Same difference. Lets go Ash; <Over Glorified Chat Room Super Group> inc.