What is the point of shrines? The biggest clan in the realm takes them all and gets huge rewards so they just keep getting bigger. No one else can even come close now so we all just attack each other and ignore shrines just like before they were here. Why try when the might gap is so huge from the guy on top and it will only get worse?
Shrines are (and have always been designed as) a late game feature aimed at some of the larger Clans in a Realm. We provide a large amount of content for players of all sizes, however the area we had been lacking in prior to Shrines was for players who had reached close to the end-game level of content we currently provide.