My dd was willing to give up innings to further improve our team. We couldn't get our top pitching recruit because they wanted more than 33% of the innings. Maybe not unreasonable, but she is now the pitching star of an inferior team vs. being on a team where she would be one of three talented pitchers and many talented players.
You say ''too many kids'' are making decisions like this. Why is it wrong that kids are making the decision to find teams where they pitch 80 percent of the innings vs. 33 percent?