My biggest gripe is they're dedicating resources to make it into an esport when it will never be. I wish it would become one, but to even dream of it you need hundreds of thousands of concurrent players.
There's a ranked matchmaking in the works but what's the point? Multiplayer has no community around it whatsoever, and even worse, game is unfinished and unbalanced.
Ranked, if anything, should come with full-release, not before. Before we need proper combat and gameplay balance, along with proper data for every player; not the last 10 matches but full history of matches with important data such as score, time, who was in the match, each player's KDA, etc. Take for example:
With a public API to gather any data you might want.
And then, even if all this was done... And it releases with proper combat, balanced and fun classes, and a nice ranked system... Will it work then? I'd say no. Probably, no. It's a niche genre. At least then it would have a slight chance, but really, why bother? At that point, isn't it better to just push for what made Warband great? Customization, communities, mods and a robust fun gameplay to support all that?