I like how people are acting as if this is something weird and dangerous. Solo queue battlegrounds have existed for nearly 18 years. Somehow we’ve all survived.
Adding meaningful rewards and improved matchmaking to the oldest queue system in the game would be a great change.
Imagine if to play rated Overwatch matches you had to secure 4 teammates and maintain that number after each match where someone inevitably quits. No other popular competitive online game would ever consider something like WoW’s backwards, inconvenient system of LFG.
LFG restricts content to a niche pool of players who are willing to put up with the slow, inconvenient and uncomfortable experience of manually assembling a group of players.
Expanding a rated mode to the current battleground system would unleash a huge pool of new RBG players.