Yet there are exponentially more PvPers doing them. The Arena player base tries to pull players from the much much larger BG, WPvP player base. Arena isn’t really MMO PvP so they don’t pull to many players over.
Unrated BGs are infinitely more fun than Rated. Sorry but Rated are pretty toxic and most PvPers don’t enjoy them. Granted at least they are objective based PvP which fits an MMO.
Arena players are a fraction of the PvP playerbase always have been and always will be and Arena did more harm than good for PvP in WoW. At the end of the day we want MMO PvP not Arena. It’s why no one cares or watches the AWC. Hope they just let Esports die in this game so it can be better.