Makes sense to make gameplay and other areas a priority so no problem there. I'm wondering, do you intend to keep the buddy page as a carousel? Seems like adding more buddies would just make the menu even more tedious if it's just one big long carousel. I figured you would go with something more like league's skin collection with rows and scrolling and sorting options like most recent, rarity etc.
We will be exploring a number of different options. I personally really like the carousel, but I agree that we need more ways to filter out content that you don't want to see and highlight the content that you do want to see in the space.