Yep, a whole year, I hoped the issue would be resolved by now, but alas.
I remember we had those issues I think exactly a year ago when I stopped playing regularly because I couldn't get a decent mm match anymore, did they just give up on fixing it?
Well then I hope you don't engage with minors as intensely as with games in alpha state.
What is "ready enough for early access"?
Re-read this part. Slowly.
Even if skirmish is supposed to be that way, you still need a non-ranked skirmish to ease-in the new players and for experienced players to test out new strategies without fear of losing MMR and just generally chill.
I will only agree with this. I was under impression they are going to leave "public" skirmish and just add ranked on top of it, not replace it.
We have battle right now with classes and it plays just fine. Slap a 6v6 mode with it and see what happens.
I agree with two previous points, but bro, come on, it's day 2 since patch released, I still wasn't able to get my rank because every time I search for a game I either can't find one, or the servers just stop working like yesterday. I bet a lot of those are unranked as well. Give it a week or two before judging balance.