A radical reallignment like this would seem like change just for the sake of change - in a sport that generally resists change.
Even if the playoffs were expanded as you suggest, it wouldn't be necessary or particularly productive to reallign the divisions like that. At most, I could see a minor shuffling to balance out the divisions, which would of course necessitate interleague play every week.
I'd just leave the structure as is for the time being.
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