No, I definitely agree with you. This was debated early on when the game opened and the overall consensus was that it was just unnecessary at the time and likely would be in the future as well.
Now I don't know if they've made any changes to the program or not, but I would certainly hope so. Otherwise, I see this working out just like it did in VMK (or similar to how the whole "tester" situation worked out). Don't get me wrong; I think Disney had a great concept with the whole "Community Leader" thing and I have nothing against the concept itself. It just has to be planned and executed
extremely well for it work, which Disney failed at. I think everyone should be helpful to others already; a badge or title prefix shouldn't say that you're knowledgeable about the game (the way it did in VMK).
So yeah, here's to hoping that significant changes were made to the program and that this will work out for the best in the end.