I was on vacation and lost my alliance leadership role

Well it’s been fun… I was leader of a top 8 alliance on my server that I built from the ground up… I played non stop for sooo many months. And now I went on vacation and lost everything due to the automatic alliance leader transfer process from inactivity. What. How is that fair. How am I supposed to always play? Never take a break for 7 days or you’ll lose everything just like me… what a waste of time…