What we are now seeing is a hyper divide of soccer for Socal teams:. Those that have the means to travel out of state to scrimmage, play in a league with out of state teams, or play in out of state tournaments. Greater pay to play segregation
Travel to play out of state is becoming more common, all the Thanksgiving tournaments are out of state now so teams are planning to travel, Surf at new years, league games for out state teams, etc.
I dunno what % of teams can afford to play out of state regularly and the time spend doing so but it's definitely trending higher as this goes on in CA.
There has to be some creative solutions to get some updates to the youth sports guidance, the traditional stuff hasn't worked, hopefully CIF gets that done in time for Dec football start but Im letting my gov reps know that youth sports is going on one way or the other so let's try to keep some of that local.