Other people point out that an empty, orphaned cabal is bad for the game (which, frankly, should be obvious), and you routinely jump in and blame applicants for the problem, rather than the people actually responsible for running the cabal and the game.

I repeat, again, that there is absolutely no scenario where this is a player-caused problem. If the applicants ARE misguided, then it's because no one is correcting them. And if they're not, why the hell haven't they been inducted yet? There isn't a scenario where the players are entirely in the wrong and that the cabal is fine as-is. If that were the case, it wouldn't be the only empty cabal in the game.

You constantly trying to redirect blame on the players is not helpful to solving a problem that, by no rational person's perspective, can be laid solely at their feet.