"Additional choice" isn't some axiomatically good thing. Take, "You must choose between +2 int shrine on your boat OR a +2 str shrine on your boat". Arbitrary, frustrating choices - despite certainly being 'meaningful' - actually make games less enjoyable.
Sid Meier's "games are a series of interesting decisions" is a cool quote, but it's not really prescriptive of how to make something fun (adding random choices) so much as descriptive of something that is already fun (things that are fun necessarily include interesting choices).
TL;DR I'm in complete agreement with the OP. If the devs want us to be able to enjoy all the new guild goodness, it would be great if they made this change (my guild has been level 71 for... umm... a year?).