I get it. There was something truly magical about OW1 when all of its elements came together. The problem was that those elements often only came together if you had a reliable group of friends to queue with or play in organized things outside of comp, or on very rare occasions in solo queue. But the flip side is that there were also times when those elements didn't come together in spectacularly bad fashion and it became one of the most miserable experiences to slog through. Overall, unless you had a reliable group to five or six stack with, you had those bad experiences more than the good ones.

5v5 tries to address some of those problems. There's more potential for individual play to carry and less reliance on needing all of the elements of the team to come together to succeed. The highs may not feel as high as a result, but if it makes those lows less frequent, then it's a trade I'm glad to make.