REWORK for the Academy. Is it needed or not?

The problem (if you can even call it that) can be solved, for example, by making the upgrade available only after the building is fully constructed.

However, there is no specific information, and many don't fully understand what exactly is being proposed. This option is much more interesting. A small thought occurred to me: will this affect the choice of city in any way? The guild will become slightly more valuable than it is now, and will some cities that don't have certain guild levels suffer from this? In essence, they shouldn't, as there are plenty of cities in XL maps.
Before this, I envisioned a slightly different upgrade system, but I like this one more now. But unfortunately, I'm still influenced by stubbornness (resentment) for the classic game. If this is where it stopped... as we know, all projects always want more over time and constantly add something. Take the first versions of WoG, HoT, VT (I'm not sure about TE), with updates they became further and further away from the classic Heroes. The same will happen here; the topic arose because of XL templates. Gradually, they will start talking about other templates, and the appetite will grow. In a year, they will start changing something else, and the same specific imbalance will become annoying, and other topics will arise. There is no guarantee of this; if they allowed one thing, why not go further? That's just how people are. :(