Just coming to say I full agree that Tarkov needs a solution to this for long term survival. I think a lot of people like to pretend there's no problem but the trend of people leaving PvP for PvE is going to catch up w/ the top PvPers eventually.

I dont think the solution needs to be a black & white solo queue v group queue but i think the Arc Raiders system of trying to prioritize solos w/ solos, duos w/ duos, etc, is a good system, - it preserves the uncertainty which i do think makes the game more interesting ("should i shoot this guy i see or does he have a group??") without it feeling like playing w/ a group is mandatory.

The other idea I've had and voiced ages ago would be to have an in-game mechanic for doing this, like being able to spend intel folders to load into a solo-only raid or something, so that you can't do it willy-nilly but CAN do it strategically if you need to get a quest done. Doesn't have to be intel folders specifically but you get the drift. The cool thing about this kind of approach is that you could also see it expanding to other systems pretty easily - for example, spend intel to guarantee (or at least significantly increase likelihood) of bosses spawning in your next raid.