the masses of the traditional RTS players, and the masses have indeed come - although loud, rude and as a result destroyed the old notions of our community.
Please don't generalise too much. Personally I see the "new" clan community in two. There is the annoying, yelling "war" (aka screenshot posting) mouthy clans, and there is the respectable side of the community who focus on playing the game and tournaments, clans such as Round Table Knights, Vandal Horde and the Huscarls.

Sorry but I just hate it when mtw players automatically think of rtw players like the general yelling lobby people.

are you playing MP battles with unrestricted camera?
Is/was this the norm in RTW?
So you can always scroll over to your allies or the enemy's back to see what's going on without having to move a unit in that area? Seems pretty convenient. For me part of the fun and tactical depth is not to know what's going on at the other end of the field but to guess. That's also where fog and rain come into play. There're many battle reports where fog and rain played immense roles on the outcome of the battle. If I want to know what's going on at the other side I've to go over there with a unit, which is also realistic imho.
BTW, someone mentioned that MTW/VI and STW MP are dead. Well they are not. Both games are still being played online.
I would like to play restricted camera, but only if they modified it. ATM it only lets you see the area around you, this makes team games very hard to play with godo teamwork because you don't have a clue whats going on on your allied sides. If they made it so I can see the fog of war around me, and all my allies then it'd be much more usable.

However I admit I'm so used to unrestricted now its difficult to go back