I'm pretty sure it was the old Hunters who were unhappy with the ADAD spam. New comers wouldn't have when played when erratic movement was a thing so that right there feels like a contradiction to what your saying is an unbalanced focus on new players.

What should the developers do to fix match making considering that there is a small player base and the players in that player base have a wide range of hours logged? Players with similar hours logged could be matched into games together but then the few people with most amount of hours logged would only ever play against each other. Seems like this could lead to stale matches for this subset of the player base or even empty servers for them. That doesn't really sound like catering to the player base as a whole and would leave the most dedicated fans with the most uninteresting matches