The Kool-Aid trope always comes up when someone lacks anything rational to say and can therefore only resort to rhetoric. There is literally not a single person at SD Surf telling parents at LA Surf that their daughter will be on a GDA team if they play for LA Surf, that their kids will have the same college exposure that they'd get playing on SD Surf's GDA team, or that their teammates and coaches will be just as good as what you get at SD Surf. Shoot, I don't even think SD Surf is making parents at LA Surf pay the same fees. It is completely ridiculous to think that SD Surf will enter into a relationship with another club as an affiliate (regardless of the nature of the affiliation) and, presto, the affiliate is now exactly the same as SD Surf. If that was your expectation, you're the one "drinking Kool-Aid".
If you think SD Surf deceived any parent about what they were getting at LA Surf, please identify the exact person at SD Surf who made the deceptive statement, and exactly what they said, to whom and when. The reality is you don't know jack, you just see everything through some bitter conspiracy theory lens. Plus, you're angry because you don't want to pay $67 for a hoodie that no one is even asking you to buy.