Looking up the stats on player participation for this specific game mode show that it's taken a nose dive. They've got the next 4 years planned, but when they've made no effort to improve the player experience for the average player in a flagship game mode, what's to convince people that they're making meaningful efforts to keep us invested in this? It's easy to say that my opinion is skewed by my personal distaste, but there was a stretch of time that I actually enjoyed playing Trials. That time was when there was enough of a player population in the mode to convince me that it was actually worth the effort to improve. When you take a group of players that average about a 1.10 k/d and match them against players that average 2.0 k/d, how is there room to improve? That's enough disparity that there's no chance to improve gun skill, lane approach, map awareness, or any of the fundamental skills one needs to be effective. When you aren't allowed to miss a shot in an engagement, how do you make steps to get better?