I personally feel that if another game mode such as arena would be reintroduced, many players would be very happy and even bring players back to the game. For players like me who can’t always play for hours at a time, something like arena would be very helpful, so we could play a quicker fun and competitive game with a shorter amount of time played. Hourglass was implemented as a sort of replacement for arena which was nice, but it has the same problems arena had, low player count, bad toxicity, long queue time, and cheaters. but if arena was added back along with keeping hourglass a lot of player would return.
recommendation: add arena, with new cosmetics to keep old players happy.
