i've found that certain guilds favor certain work and those get the attention.
i've been in my guild for a very long time and in the beginning it was older ladies meeting at 10am on a tuesday and if you didn't do everything by hand you weren't a quilter.
now things have changed and its more of an artist community and no one really makes quilts that are meant to be bedding.
my point is don't quit the guild work to change it.
go more, get involved, be vocal and this way you'll turn it into the kind of place you think it should be.