Not disagreeing with anything that you've said, but I'll go out on a limb with this prediction:  if enough schools start leaving the FHSAA (especially public schools and any big-name private schools), I would expect the legislature to jump in and take action.   What action?  I haven't a clue, but it would action that would reverse the trend and send the rats scurrying back onto the boat . . .  and that's not a poke at the Lakeland Dreadnoughts.   

SSAA West Nassau SSAA Cambridge  Rural - Blountstown  Rural - Taylor County 1A True North  2A Bradford Co   2A Cocoa 2A Cardinal Gibbons 3A Jefferson 4A Choctaw 4A Zephyrhills 4A Port Charlotte 5A Mosley 5A Manatee 5A Edgewater 6A Pace 6A South Lake 6A West Broward vs Monarch 6A Nease 7A Lake Mary 7A Sarasota Riverview  7A Fort Pierce Central

FHSAA is too worried about protecting their overpaid executives to do any real reform.  They could enact a common sense transfer policy but instead they blame the state legislature as a cop-out. The best thing is for schools to get out. Form a new league,  join SSAA,  whatever. Let the STARS and others have their own.  

And sadly there are some out there that don't care about anything but padding their win total so yeah that mindset is unfortunately out there 

You also have some schools where the head football coach is also the AD so if they are unhappy they would have the power to do that