I suspect that they're using these as a way to teach people how to use various site functions, because the tutorial is shit and these functions are explained in announcment threads throughout the years instead of on one place and some are barely noticable - like people not knowing about select feeding, restoring dragons and/or items, dragon profile vistas...

Exalting and restoring lv25s after is pretty common for dom battles. One battle in two years occassion that isn't riddles with regret exalts perhaps. >>;