Here's the problem, the de facto reason why so many players are disincentivised: you have presented them with a system that claims to have two different ways to qualify for the 2014 World Championships (presuming they are not qualified from T4 at 2013's World Championships); yet seems only to reward one way - a high performance at Nationals. I doubt any of the Judges, TO's, LL's etc in favour of this erratic decision can justify the risk of spending so much money to travel, play and hope to get lucky enough to reach a CP amount close to 500, but then depend on a rather high performance at your Nationals regardless. The new system favours Nationals far too much; to the point of making the CP system obsolete. A player can spend a chunk on cards, travel fares, and so forth; reach some mark between 400-500, then get unlucky at their Nationals and have their work dashed by one unlucky day of play.
Maybe a miniscule Worlds is the aim here, and the company and staff are open to wisdom denied to the playerbase. Or maybe the company has tried to listen to the erroneous cries of players claiming the system is too easy to qualify in, and the time length on day 1 of Worlds this year, and tried (but - importantly - failed) to resolve both issues with a huge change to the Points system that renders itself obsolete, and in the process, drives the competitive popularity and viability of qualification to a rather low point.
Maybe a miniscule Worlds is the aim here, and the company and staff are open to wisdom denied to the playerbase. Or maybe the company has tried to listen to the erroneous cries of players claiming the system is too easy to qualify in, and the time length on day 1 of Worlds this year, and tried (but - importantly - failed) to resolve both issues with a huge change to the Points system that renders itself obsolete, and in the process, drives the competitive popularity and viability of qualification to a rather low point.