The reason they have the ASG is to allow teams in large countries to have a week with two Cup games so they're never required to play four competitive games in a week. Of course as it is currently comprised, there is the possibility for an additional Cup game the Thursday after the first game of the Finals, but whether they want to extend the Cup that deep into the playoffs is another story, and that's without even running through a revised schedule to see if bumping that league game up a spot ends up throwing off playoff schedules.
But the scheduling and financial impacts is something I completely understand. For the fourth season in a row, I'm going to have a three game road trip between my final two conference games and the first game of interconference.