Imagine in a real life sport, you have a red team and a blue team. Let’s say you played the red team for 14 years, until x-y-z happened and you decided to switch teams. Now, you’re on the blue team, and many others did the same as you. So you’re on the same team as plenty of others who were your long-time teammates, but while this was happening, those on that team before you and your teammates starting leaving because of incompatibility issues. Teammates in the same team don’t mesh well in this case.
I guess somewhere down the line recently, I determined that the Blue Team was not the team I used to know. So I turned in my Blue uniform and picked up Red.
But trust me, I really do think the change is color-deep. I can’t do anything endgame in the Alliance anymore, it’s gotten that bad.