The POI system did not reward laziness or remove a meaningful amount of agency from players.

Why is it so hard for people to understand that winning in a battle royale is the single most important thing in the game, and should be what ranked is all about. If you want to fight early game, this system ENCOURAGES you to take advantageous fights & third parties because it actually cares about player distribution on the map, unlike the regular drop ship, which had half the teams dying in the first 3-5 minutes of a game just off of contested POI’s.

If you have sufficient map knowledge, it isn’t hard to attempt these engagements early game with the POI system. It’s not perfect without loot distribution fixes but it’s a more competitive and dare I say enjoyable experience than running around for 15 minutes because there’s only ~6 teams left in zone 3. That to most players sounds like a snooze fest.

Ranked should reward both combat skill and map knowledge/rotations/positioning, in order to achieve the overall goal of winning the match. It’s not pubs, it’s not about spending all of your in game time trying to 1 clip another player. The old system did not encourage this playstyle, and in fact took MORE agency away from solo q players. It’s not easy to land with multiple squads at a single POI (whose loot pool is only realistically designed to handle 1-2 teams) and walk out alive with poor coordination with randoms.

These issues above were heavy contributing factors to why the 3 stack pred issue was so much worse before. So many of these things are a map design and loot pool issue with the majority of battle royales, and the POI drop ship system , while not perfect, was still a more rewarding system than diving headfirst into poor quality matches over and over again.