It happened in the Village. There’s no parity in the village. End of story.
I completely agree with you, by the way, that some people have trashed the village. You see more Jerry type play than old school pillar worthy type play. And Battle is and has always been my favorite cabal. In fact, if I ever play Battle again I have had thoughts to make it be a super hard core old school mentality type character that will undoubtedly end up being hated for calling folks to the circle for being shitty villagers.
But this is not the log to get on a soapbox about. Is there room for a higher level of villager play? Absolutely, a lot. But, it doesn’t fail village role play either.