The early (mid-late 2000s) board culture takes a different trajectory that reflects on the void created without Thande. I have no idea what trajectory it would take, but I can tell you there'd be a markable difference.
EDIT: Big ones I can think of right now are a different Standard Colour Scheme, a different course for the AH.COM series, and without the influential LTTW, timelines that are inspired by it will either simply not exist or have a different influence that takes them in a different direction, with the timelines that were inspired by those now altered timelines...