Of course it's the same. Warring tags run whatever countries they feel will work best. They almost always run countries with low land. Warrers think they don't get grabbed because of their amazing defense, but the truth is they don't get grabbed because they keep such low land. I don't see any warring tags deliberately choosing a worse strategy just so others can grab them and be happy?

I don't accept your argument about self farming players. If that was actually the case then people like DeDLySMuRF wouldn't have to manufacture a war just by FSing an alliance that they picked out of a hat. Conflict between alliances would naturally happen on its own.