The better solution is for US Soccer to get out of the youth soccer business and just let different regions do what works best for them. There is one thing that makes for a great WNT, and one thing only, which is that more of a country's kids play it, and play it more often over more years. That's it. And that happens when a sport is fun and accessible. US Soccer, however, is driving people out of the sport in droves because they take the fun out of it and make it too expensive for most to play it at a remotely high level. If US Soccer succeeds, every really good youth soccer player with any potential will need to start buying plane tickets to fly all over the country 10 months a year if they already aren't. If Cordeiro were sincere about making soccer more affordable as he claims in the NYT article, he would start by paying for everyone's hotel and plane ticket to Vegas to beat the s**t out of an Albion squad that will be far worse than any of a number of SoCal HS teams. I am sorry Las Vegas, but if you don't have enough good youth players to play elite soccer locally, that is your problem and you need to be the ones doing the traveling.
And, as others have alluded to, US Soccer completely misses the point with respect to the actual benefits of soccer at the youth level. There are, what, 20 players on a WC roster? That's fewer than 2 persons per birth year on average between the ages of the youngest and oldest players on the team. US Soccer is creating a youth system that is intended to benefit fewer than 2 of the almost 2 million women born in the U.S. every year - plus Macario. Yet two people in just one family (Ellejustus') benefited from the system that US Soccer seeks to destroy. Especially on the girls' side, youth soccer is a pathway to educational opportunities for thousands of kids every year that would otherwise be out of reach, whether that's just getting a kid through HS, staying grade eligible in HS, or getting into Stanford or UCLA (and maybe scholarship money) instead of going to a JC or passing up college completely because people need to eat to live. Why is all this crazy nonsense happening? Because US Soccer finds it inconvenient scouting kids at lots of tournaments like in the old days. GDA makes it much easier to find all the best U14 girls, who will either fizzle out as they get older or will prove themselves in college and would have been found anyway at an age that actually matters.