Long Alma matches are probably ones where the Alma using player does not use Alma properly.
Alma is overall the best balanced deck that actually DOES require some skill and understanding of how to play it. It is probably the deck representing of what was intented when ToT was created.
i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (in progress being filled out), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them
Now they should correct Crow. Either by nerfing it further or maybe also introducing a mechanism that requires a specific order of play to benefit from its advantages.