I’m very glad you asked. I personally think that the system is a little dated and could use some improvements.
If I start a LFG, I am unable to see the other LFG listings. If you look at the LFG postings at any given time, you could piece together a whole bunch of teams just based on who is posted and what thhey’re looking for. They just can’t see each other because thhey all have their own groups listed. You also can’nt do stuff like queue for dungeons/bg’s/skirms while you are waiting for your group to fill. You’ve also got to sit there and watch your group listing for (sometimes) hours on end just to find your matches. The system also makes you jump through hoops to figure out an applicant’s rating instead of just listing it with their application.
I think that you could update the LFG system and actually satisfy the want for solo queue and solve the problems above with one fel swoop. Give us a function in the LFG page to hit a button and open a filter where you can pick the specs you want to play with, maybe also a slider for how far away from your CR that you’re willing to group with. Once you’ve selected your options and pushed the action button, it throws you in “queue”, and groups you with the closest matched partners in the queue pool with you. You can then browse othher LFG pages, queue for skirms/bgs/whatever, and not have to necessarily investigate every appplicant that you get matched with. You’d have the option to leave the group or stay with thhe group after every game, just like a skirmish. You could even leave the OG LFG page intact for people who prefer to form that way.
People who want to be able to play the game in the style of “solo queue” will really get their want met with this, because you can really just set your filter and queue by yourself as much as you want. You’ll obviously have longer queue times the stricter you make your ffilter, but that’s kind of a given. If you think about it that way, it could even bring more comp diversity to the ladder.