The best change imo would be to remove hero bans from the game entirely, same as they were back in 2020
Other options that would imo be helpful, in no particular order (and these are individual suggestions…I am not asking for all of them)
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Limit hero bans to matches at the masters level and above
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Allow those who are AGAINST hero bans to vote to PRESERVE a character. A preserve vote has the same but opposite weight in votes…minus 7, minus 5, minus 3, respectively. I can already see someone typing something along the lines of “this removes the whole purpse of bans”. Not at all. It makes the process truly democratic, because those of us who dont want bans can vote against them currently.
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Riffing out from the above, if you choose a preferred hero, all three of your votes are counted as protecting said hero. -15 votes total.
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Since tanks and supports have half as many heroes, roughly, the max number of heros in those roles that can be banned is 1 instead of 2
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If you declare a preferred hero and said hero is banned, the very next time you set a preferred hero, it cannot be banned. In this way, players who are being regularly denied can get to play their hero half the time. A weaker variant of this is you get this benefit after having your preferred hero banned twice…in this way, you get to play that character once every three matches
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Blizzard can set an exempt list every (day or week) where the listed characters are exempt from banning. The list of 1 to 4 ban-exempt characters is chosen randomly from the top 10 or 12 most banned characters from the prior period. And no, I dont care if Soe’s cat makes the selections. Random is random.
I do want to emphasize that I still think removing hero bans altogether is by far the best course of action, but any of these ideas would lessen the negative impact of this horrifically bad system on his game