You'd have to ask those who authored the original bylaws to get the actual rationale, but I could guess a couple of factors.
Before you ask, I do not know who wrote the original bylaws.
Everyone need understand that the original intent with CPL (and later SCCL-PE extension) was to provide a full flighted club vs. club model across all ages that demands scrutiny at the club level to insure that capacity exists to support some of the original demands, and in this regard is no different than many other US Club based leagues.
In my mind, this was the mistake at local lower level, and as proven, very difficult to represent at every age group/gender for most clubs, particularly at the same level team and why older teams/clubs are returning to SCYS and its team based entry and promotion/relegation.
That being said, the new rewrite (and its authors) had the luxury of redefining criteria to focus on parochial Junior Academy league only and can more easily support team based entry by club (that meets US Club standard) and has no demands to represent at each age group.
A secondary factor with US Club competition is that there is little or no governing rules about recruiting and club behavior policed regionally like there is with SCYS (ethical recruiting rules to stop clubs/coaches jumping with teams to new clubs). So US Club leagues (in my experience) tend to build these 'honor' bound policies and recruiting restrictions at the league level, rather than Statewide like with SCYS.
