The more I think about it, the more I find myself being swayed by Hood Rat.

Judging the validity of an accomplishment is never easy. For example, we can swear up and down that savage are still by FAR the most difficult fights in the game, and it's a noteworthy achievement for our server to have them cleared. But most people have no baseline of comparison to actually understand how insane 7-9 still is, only our word to go on.
Similarly, the argument can be made that a team who has spent MONTHS pushing for a clear should not have their hard work dismissed because they took too long. In the same vein as the 'what should we do, just leave the savage clears empty forever?' argument, I'm imagining the FC which finally beats Bahamut after blood, sweat and tears, only for THEIR clear entry to remain empty forever just because some elitist raiders said so.

Perhaps a new symbol is in order, such as a ■ - symbolizing a group has cleared content after the patch which added it the dutyfinder. After all, we don't fail to recognize brand-new companies that appear on the scene and clear T9 months after echo, and I'm not sure t13 should be any different. In these last two months before 3.0, our progression thread should be a testament for WHY raiding on Brynhildr is healthy instead of continuing the bullshit reasoning that claims you need to transfer to be successful.