I try to stay at 1,400 trophies, because I was mostly tired of being attacked by TH9s (will be TH9 soon though Lol, best find a new range soon).

The League bonus in Crystal is nice, but not nice enough to numb the annoyance of being raided after 3 minutes of looking away, and also being shown that your base defence, is again, despite best efforts, is a pathetic joke to the people that's one or two Town Hall levels higher than you.
So where am I to go? You want me to ruin my gameplay to 'play nice'? Give me something I can work with! I'm sick of smacking lower level villages myself! It is boring, and I know how it feels to be that level. Heck, I purposefully give a Shield to them, when able, if doing a looting trophy drop. But as it is, that is the few methods people can use to get the loot they want. (I'm amazed the game still can operate this way for so long) I'm lucky enough to find
some enjoyment in
not using a 'farming base' (exposed TH layout), while many have failed to do so. And I can clearly see why they do it, and it isn't because they want to play dirty... usually not at first.
Until there is a loot bonus towards stronger bases, people, including me, will still farm abandoned bases and lower Town Hall level villages. If there is a stronger loot penalty for attacking lower level villages, for most people they would feel like they might as well give up this game and move on to something else.
It'll come up again. Either this thread, or by someone else newly discovering that thier assumptions on gameplay are sorely mistaken.