However, looking at the sole purpose of the "Survival Games," upholding the aspect of survival has been done quite well. If it were called the "PvP Games," Then I think your ideas would fit perfectly. A gamemode in which you can grab full iron and a good sword and just go ham. The thing is, we have exactly that through Survival Games. The goal of the gamemode is not to stack everybody up. That just gets boring. I don't think that we're kicking the ideas of clan members out, but there are other concerns that we prioritize.
In regards to the issue concerning a much larger portion of the community wanting a huge shift in the sole basis on which the Survival Games was founded, threads like those are one in one hundred at best. I'm merely insisting that you should try out some different options, and discover the other great maps that the Survival Games has to offer.
Darkrai phrases it quite well.