User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 439: Albareth Empire, Review./@comment-1776824-20150608225247/@comment-1776824-20150609132118

@Anon: Bear with me, here.
 * 1) Erza is a terrible choice for Guild Master compared to Laxus. Never in the guild? You may be confusing him for Gildarts. Laxus has been in the guild since his birth and may have been a jerk, but if you read between the lines, his motives for not helping during times of crisis were that he just believed he shouldn't have had to. That, and he was out on work. Yes, work. He is a wizard; he does jobs. Everything he's done has been out of love for the guild, even if it was the wrong way for him to go about doing things.
 * 2) Laxus is more mature than Erza. This is just irrefutable. Erza has a terrible temper, she is an on-the-go kind of person, she is younger than Laxus, and she is extremely immature. She isn't the type to sit back and let things play out, or monitor the situation. She is the type to rush in head first and think things out later. Hence why it is a bad idea for her to just abandon the guild for Albareth, because Laxus is very much like his grandfather in many aspects. His earlier antics and attitude were almost completely driven by an inferiority complex, which later dissipated and resulted in him getting his head out of his ass. If she stays behind and goes later that's a different story, but the guild needs protecting in the hypothetical event that they fail. Gildarts and Laxus are nowhere. All the strong members are probably leaving. There is no one to keep the guild safe in the event of a failure if she goes.
 * 3) The whole guild going on this expedition is retarded. Lumen Histoire is already known to more people than necessary. It would be an insult to the history, legacy and integrity of the guild if even more people found out about it. There is a reason it is kept secret. It is dangerous.
 * 4) The Sting comment was meant to be a joke. We have no idea how he is as Guild Master. He could've very well left the guild as a special occasion to check on Team Natsu since Avatar was supposed to be highly dangerous. Erza, however, is not the kind to sit back. Her Guild Master duties completely contradict the way she has been written for almost a decade now. Her status as Guild Master is completely circumstantial, but honestly, when this is over she needs to relinquish it to either Laxus, should he return, or back to Makarov, since he never really wanted to disband in the first place.