The question is funny because you're asking about the timing when a glitch will recur. But any kind of errors have the characteristic that they occur unplanned and also unintentionally.
But since I didn't know the facts, I looked on the map for older kingdoms with only 2-3k cities. Indeed there are, and when you look at the kingdom, it looks like it was never settled normally. There aren't the thousands of usual abandoned mini-towns everywhere.
If you want to take over such a kingdom it doesn't seem to be a fundamental problem, go and try if you have the fighting strength. It would also be of no particular advantage if such a kingdom were to arise accidentally again, because very strong clans from outside would also try to take over the supremacy there again and again.
Besides, I believe that the impact of the abandoned mini-towns is grossly overestimated. According to my own samples, these cities below level 10 have an estimated average influence of less than 20k. Assuming 90% of the cities in a kingdom belong to it, it affects about 40k cities in an average kingdom. So the total influence of these cities is 40k x 20k = 800M. This corresponds to the influence of a single active small town of about level 24. Thus the influence of this "spawn" can have no effect in any drawings of the kingdom.