I will state my point of view without reading the previous posts deeply because I don't want to take sides.
First of all, diversity is fun, I started playing on NA mainly because I wanted something different from the EU scene that back then was full of pricks (still is), and people that "know it all".
The difference between the game style, the ways of approaching the game and the different rule-set was something fresh and that I liked a lot but like everything in life things move on, they change and they get adapted.
The Gold issue
I never had issue with the 1500k apart from the situation when one team starts crushing the other, making the armor gap a hard challenge to coupe with. I enjoyed BIT's rule set because it removed that issued making things more balanced and comebacks more likely to happen, although I understand why some people still resist to it, playing year after year with 1500k makes it hard to adapt to a new reality, so it doesn't bother me at all if it goes back to 1500k or changes to 1250K, in fact, I believe it could be 1500K with reduced rounds bonus but 1250K seems a good balance between old and new.
Timer
Five minutes is a good round timer.
Don't get me wrong on this one but atm round timer is way to high for such small numbers being field in the scrims.
One of the good things about EU rule-set is indeed the constant attempt to improve the game play and reduce the overall length of the scrims by reducing the round timer in order to avoid heavy camping. This years in WNL we introduced the forced MOTF spawn, rounds have 4 minutes, something that still allows teams to use their strategies, but the flag will always spawn at 02:00, making draws almost impossible and giving teams different ways to win the rounds and approach the map domination status, apart from reducing/avoiding the boring heavy camping. So far the experience has been great and I would encourage the NA community to take a look at it. That doesn't mean that things need to be copied, such concept is non-sense for me, we did it to improve the game play experience and is there for the taking.
Maps and map picks
This is one of the things I always liked about NA community, on EU teams are forced to play with random maps and factions that they are not used to, in NA it is given the opportunity to chose your best map and the one you are most adapted at, you are not forced to do something you don't enjoy, its quite the opposite and it should stay like that. In the end isn't the goal to have fun?
The maps we play on EU might not be the same we play on NA and that is refreshing, but I have to advise you to introduce some of the new maps we have on WNL, so you guys won't be left behind in terms of preparation for the Nations Cup (if next year we still hang around here).
The only issue for me was Random Plains and that has been already addressed and in my opinion very well addressed.
The big difference between EU and NA is the way players approach the game, in EU trying hard is a very common thing and that is something that doesn't fit my the concepts of gaming. I do understand people that do it and I have the pleasure to know a great bunch of these players but for me gaming = fun.
On the other hand the NA community takes things more lightly, they have a soft approach to the game that I love and the main goal is having fun with your pals (at least in TMW) and that is why I enjoy playing more on NA then I do in EU nowadays.
To wrap it up, it is true that the NA community doesn't need to use the same standards that we use on EU but those standards were made in order to have a more enjoyable competitive scene, I fully agree with Gelden when he stated the the NA community should do their own thing, doesn't need to be a copy from EU but we provided good examples when it comes down to improvements, if we did I don't see why you guys can't as well. The main question is, do you guys really wanna change?
And please don't read this thinking "Maynd is EU biased" because everyone that knows me and plays with me knows my true intentions and that I only want the best for the NA community, even tough most of you keep looking at us, EU players, like we were the devil and a bunch of elitist pricks.
Xoxo
You might want to look into the 1000/1500 debate a bit more before you post your diarrhea in this thread. 
