Some cool ideas for sure, but I have a question.
In the First part of your post you mentioned the equal footing component, and I get the basics of the idea, but the equal footing has some problems.
Its only allegedly equal until the bots start selling gold and from what I saw in anniversary thats about 1 week.
After the first week, this component that a lot of people tend to champion is lost to gold buyers and bots.
It was that swift realisation that turned me off to fresh, and back to era I went since fresh is infested by bots because of the gold buyers.
So why play fresh if the main selling feature is obsolete in a single week?