We don’t need to encourage anymore anti-MMO features like this. Other than it being non-sensicle for WoW pvp like you acknowledged due to comp reasons, it disincentives making connections and community building that the MMO genre is built around. LFD and soon to be LFR is a big enough disaster, lets not ruin pvp too.
Totally agree, top of the bracket is full of queue snipers and teams that went afk for the rest of the season sitting on their rating. The top of the ladder is 2400 vs 2k of the same teams over and over farming or getting farmed. It’s trash. Rating decay, and MMR inflation on top of this would be a step in the right direction to deal with the smaller pop.