As far as I know, the guild chest are optional. If the chest access doesn't work for your guild, don't put one in your ship. That seems pretty simple to me.
If you want to propose a different chest that has restricted access at a different reward level, go for it. But don't change the current one because it doesn't work for you. It works great for some guilds. It lets us borrow items in a reasonable manner rather than waiting for the leader to come on and assign it.
I would agree that logging would be superior to controls as well and would be nice to have.