Trust me, I know what you are saying. Also...I have heard this line of reasoning many, many times before (and not just pertaining to the 'GM'/in-game moderating issue).
Let me state this publicly; I am not anti-TLOPO. Rather instead...and I think this is what really concerns me the most...is we basically have only "ONE" chance to witness POTCO becoming successfully emulated. As ex-POTCO players, are we 100% OK with the fact that the majority of us should not even be involved in some light capacity of it's very fate? The game meant so much to each of us...you know? Why shouldn't we have a say as to how the project itself should be strategized?
What I find a bit uneasy (for myself, that is) is that while although everyone is preaching "community"... the community itself is so far out-of-the picture on things that we might as well stop referring to everything as community driven and accept the fact that OUR fate is completely co-dependent upon the decisions made from a small group of gamers whom are no more qualified to rule over our fate than Disney was, within the past.
*I am not trying to come off as ungrateful! I do appreciate TLOPO and the progress they have shown, thus far. More often than not, I'm basically trying to understand (completely) what everyone most wants. As best as I can speculate, everyone just wants to play POTCO again no matter what that does or does not entail. But, we fail to remember that we likely have only ONE shot at this, to get it right - I mean.