With the new PFS year, it seems Factions have been rendered irrelevant. Specifically, Prestige from Faction missions have been eliminated in favor of gaining a second Prestige Point through success at a secondary mission objective, now even retroactively to all seasons' scenarios.
Why shouldn't all characters just be Grand Lodge? It seems choice of Faction means as little in game now as age, height, weight, gender, and in SOME cases, alignment.
If all the Faction choices are kept, since there are Paizo sourcebooks involving Factions, shouldn't a clamor arise for a sourcebook or a rules expansion on age, height, weight, gender, and/or alignment? I'm not being sarcastic or snarky, I truly would like to know the reason to spend time on choosing a Faction.