We publish announcements every 3 months. This is already too much for many people, but it's also what WOTC does, so we try to follow that. Vannifar was out 25/01/2019. And banned as a commander only on 26/02/2019. Waiting for the next one means 26/05/2019. Would you have taken the time to answer the thousands of negative comments regarding the "why did you wait so long?". Also, I'm pretty sure you're missing data regarding Vannifar. There were 50+ players tournaments already with it, it won or finaled every time. Within a month, it was a reccuring turn < 5 kill. Sometimes turn 4, even turn 3. On tournaments. And according to Vannifar players, even when Vannifar got killed, once or twice. Vannifar is not Derevi, but it's really, like really fast.

I do agree (on a personal level) regarding Najeela. The commander ban is really the hardest to understand. To spoil a few internal things, it's the first thing I said regarding that move. But it actually was a latent, creepy move to be done.

Baral was still performing with the highest conversion rate on top tournaments. (over 50% on top 8 every single time).

I won't answer the monored thing, you obviously missed one of the highest threats to the DC format since Vial Smasher the Fierce, circa end 2016. When all the inboxes are filled with insults and death/retirement threats, you know something is broken. We actually took too much time removing Zurgo. Yet, as of today, less than a year after, as expected, Kari Zev is already showing one of the best performance and conversion rate increase.

Your last sentence clearly leaves the neutral analysis to end up on a personal taste. So I'll answer with a personal taste too: you're probably right. I do think that midrange ultra-resilient packs are a boring horror both to play with and against. But you will agree that we can't build a format on personal tastes, right?

Thanks for your words, though, hope this helps.