It's not like its hard to start a faction or something.
factions and towny cause multiple intergration as well as allie/enemy issues, inevitably tearing a server community apart rather than making it friendly and inviting. more often than not, every towny or faction server i join has a few massive towns, small hidden communites, and a bunch of stuff stained areas where bigger factions or factions who waited until everyone was asleep decided to enemy an other faction and just forget stuff up. it's hard to find a big server that doesn't have either of these mods that isn't either heavily restricted like mongoose country, or i can't join for some reason, like the shaftlands.