Possibly an unpopular opinion. But, it may be time for RGL to combine divisions if the team numbers will remain low. I remember talking to Scream about the expectations of the divisions being larger due to it being Summer but it was quite the opposite of that. The problem with Amateur/Newcomer is that the team numbers are always extremely healthy but teams never survive past that single Amateur or Newcomer season. Most play their season and then disband the team. If anyone can find the statistics of number of teams transitioning from AM > IM in a given season, that could inform RGL's future decision making. There has to be more done to encourage newer players to want to move up from 1 match a week to 2 matches a week.
I can't speak much about the Advanced issue. But, it feels as though the ownership changes have disorganized the league heavily. Also, the public outbursts of the admins in the forum showing that there are multiple disagreements between staff and ownership. That indicated there are a large amount of internal issues that RGL has to figure out before they fix anything else. However, not giving players a set playoffs format is a huge blunder. Hopefully they can put it behind them and do better from now on.