the two are not mutuality exclusive , general status reports , mission planning and tasking should still be discussed in TS
SR is awesome tool , but it should be clean from all that and only GCI needs to use it (+channels for flights)
but you are correct , people should not report every time they lower flaps etc.
lately i cant even get a spot on the server in peak hours , need to refresh the list for 30 minutes for a spot, i would not mind thinning the heard...