[2023] With Quickplay coming soon, is it time to reconsider having a secondary role for Normal Drafts?

If there was a way to guarantee you get to play the fun thing you wanted to play without tradeoffs we'd probably do it. The challenge is that matchmaking just breaks without some kind of load balancing mechanism (secondary roles, autofill), we just can't make matches for some players since there are different selection rates for each role (if they were all 20% we'd be cool) and queue times skyrocket, which makes people stop playing. The data pretty reliably shows that everyone says they're okay with longer queue times, but when they actually get long people stop playing. There's wiggle room with that (e.g. we could do a small increase to queue times for a small increase to match quality and it could be okay) but no load balancing mechanism is a very radical shift.

Season start 2024 gameplay content and some initial 2025 planning.

This is a weird narrative, if you were to go through my match history because I play League regularly (or anyone else's) and find times where I had a bad game any time since the scoreboard pings were introduced you'd find games where I got spam pinged. Devs here don't make changes because of ego, we do it with consideration to data and the actual experience players are having.

The simulation hasn't been run in a while but I think it was something like ~4x longer queues, which also doesn't account for the people who'd say "forget this I'm going to go play a different game" who don't get to that point.