I understand your issue and those in the top 5-10% in the world have. They have to play sweats all the time. I'm sure the bottom 5-10% feel the same way no matter what system is in place. The question is do you go with a system that appeases the minority (10% -20%) of your player base or do you go with a system that is geared towards the majority (80-90%)?
I doubt they're going to cater to the minority. That's not a sustainable business model.
If they do as you suggest then I guarantee what's going to happen is that the top tiered players are going to mostly play in those "easier" lobbies. Then average players are going to stop playing Crucible altogether because getting shit on is not fun. If it happens once in a while fine but 7 out of 10? No way anyone wants any part of that. If average players stop playing then your're back to sweats again.
So I would suggest having another account that you can delete every so often to keep your Elo low and use it to have fun with your lowered skilled friends. I'm sure a lot of top players do this already.
Edit: You might be able to make an SBMM lobby and a Connection Based lobby (CBMM). I'd be willing to bet most people would choose the SBMM lobby. So you'd be back to sweats again. There's just no compelling way to convince most people that being killed by superior players is the way to have fun.
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This is exactly how I feel towards it. It is far more likely for the average player to get fed up and never come back to PvP if they are getting demolished the majority of the time. The higher tier players will continue to most likely play dozens of hours in a week regardless. Percentage wise you would be losing a lot more of the player base from people getting fed up without SBMM....
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Edited by SeaWolv: 7/26/2017 1:33:45 AMWhat I find interesting is that elite gamers think they should be entitled to a more casual game as if that's what the rest of us get. What they don't seem to realize is that a match they think is casual is actually sweaty for the rest of us. Just because SBMM exists doesn't mean that only the top (or bottom) 5-10% have sweaty matches, it means we all do more than we don't. You could make the argument that most of us get fewer sweaties then the top players but you can't convince me that every game at the top (or bottom) is sweaty.