You think you do but you don’t
I played AV for 2 hours yesterday, and yes, most of the games were a fast zerg BG, but also were a good amount of stalemate game, when few wipe and go to defend their base and make the game last more than 5 min and you know what? Most players in chat start to complain that the honor ratio isn’t worth that way and drop it. There were games of 30 or 40 min that was fun, but stained with such great amount of complain that compared it with the forums, would put them in shame.
So don’t fool yourself, sadly a lot of players, maybe a vast majority, prefer the game with this version.