I feel 5v5 would help. Since Bungie does not want to grant more maps or rotate them out, the numbers need to downsize. Combined Arms should have never left Destiny and any competitive mode should have been left in the dust or should have been only Trials of Osiris. The problem is there are more players who want to play casually versus competitive and Bungie doesnt seem to understand that.

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At this point not really, the connection issues are deeply routed in the core of the game they will forever be present and get increasingly worse as more and more is added to the game and Bungie not being allowed to remove anything. They could easily have been putting out 1 new map actually designed for 6v6 every season or every second season but I guess that'd be "over delivering". As far as the core issues themselves either a year or two years with no major DLC to give them the time to transfer to a more modern engine could be one path to take. Although at that point with the amount of work that takes they may as well just make D3

yeah, but players love to play with bad connection so laggers will still be a thing

It might help with the completely unacceptable stability issues but you do have to remember just how much the team shooting started to come into play back when it was last 4v4 and if its sbmm the team shooting will most definitely be a factor. The game has changed so much that its really hard to say how things would go for newer players. They're also more protected by the matchmaking and stability issues now so who knows. Tbh, it doesn't sound like a bad idea to at least try because its hard to say 6v6 should really be a cornerstone of the quickplay experience when its straining the maps and the connections the way it has been. It could also make it easier to bring some other maps back. I don't think trials should necessarily be 4v4 but the other modes might fare a little better.

Probably not. We desperately need to see our current ping and others pings. So that we can report that and with the report it would track and show that players average ping that match. So that kids who actually lag would get banned. Versus what we have now is if your spam reported for bad connection. No matter how good your connection is you'll get a 2 week suspension. Crazy 22k matches played hardwired to the best routers money can buy with 500mbps speeds. No warnings for bad connection ever while also never getting error codes. I got a 2 week suspension for spam reports that weren't looked into. While people who constantly get error coded and play on a slow poor wifi connection never get banned....