The premade groups would probably not be as interested in queuing as a premade if they knew they couldn’t get easy honor. Premades love steam rolling PUG’s! It inflates their ego and makes them feel super powerful. Quick and fast honor is the name of the game for premades. Take that away or make it actually harder for premades because they would be stuck playing other premades, and you restore the balance of BG’s… it worked for AV right?
Of course players wouldn’t be interested if a basic part of ranking from vanilla was changed on it’s head. When you came into classic, what exactly did you expect?
They changed AV. I would love #nochanges to be a reality but when they put in cross realm PvP from the start, ya, that ruined the vanilla experience right there.
Cross realm PvP came towards the tail end of Vanilla. If you look at the overall time period in which battlegrounds existed during vanilla, most of that time was server specific only PvP.
Yet premades face other premades almost always during battleground weekends. What premades don’t want is pugs being able to rank by putting the worst, most uncoordinated and unskilled teams possible on the field.