[FMadera]

One of the things that makes "teams" great is a little thing called "depth." Not often does the most dominating player automatically play for the team that wins the championship, because most good players are non-factors out of the back row (a few great players excepted). It's what happens when your best players are in the back row that truly is the test of a great team.

I'm going to guess that whoever came up with this idea can't recognize illegal alignments, and wanted to come up with an idea on how to cover up this deficiency. It's extremely tough to learn/recognize, and can be frustrating, but I've never heard anyone who can actually recognize alignments advocate getting rid of the alignment rule altogether.