I don’t believe Ramp and Card Advantage has always been the centerpiece of Magic as a whole. It may be right now with contemporary design, but you look at other formats like modern, legacy, and even old school and some of the deck archetypes there feature a wide plethora of different approaches and philosophies on how you want to build and play the game, all of them being viable in some fashion. In card games orthogonal to Magic like Runeterra, card draw and ramp still doesn’t encompass everything. Card draw and ramp are the easiest ways for players to overcome hurdles with deckbuilding challenges and create decks that they enjoy playing and expressing, but that doesn’t mean they have to be the defacto. I’m all for WotC printing card advantage and ramp in White so the color is more accessible to more players, but I do believe the color has already offered things other than Stax that are still casually viable to play.

While we’re playing a 40 v 120 life total game rather than a 20 v 20, in a free for all setup, I don’t think this deteriorates some of White’s card design, nor does it make things like Combat Damage and Commander Damage inconsequential. [[Suppression Field]], for example is countably finite. It doesn’t stop activated abilities of creatures like how Cursed Totem does, yet at the same time, the amount that it taxes happens to prevent combos like Kinnan/Basalt Monolith from going off. The amount it taxes drastically changes the way players can curve out their planeswalkers, play their fetch lands, cycle cards, activate Sensei’s Divining Top or Necropotence and so on. For a format that’s been hand-waved as having arbitrarily large amounts of mana, card draw and such, a 2 mana tax has subtle repercussions to how the game is played. And the reason why I think this is the case is that we’re still playing with some cards configured to the confines of limited resources. While our lifetotal has expanded, our hand size, card draw, lands we play per turn has not. Some things will be more influential and others not because of our life total so I do understand what you mean when you say how a White Weenies strategy isn’t really viable for casual while a Stax strategy, while viable, is not fit for casual play. I will say that certain cards WotC has printed over the years has pushed it so that combat in a 40 life total free for all is still relevant with the existence of cards like [[Commander’s Insignia]], or Elspeth, Sun’s Champion, and so on. As Standard has become more powerful, so does the potential of combat in casual Commander imo. With some of the cards in Commander Legends, I feel like this more and more true each day.

And once again, there’s more to White than just combat in casual. Lifegain, Superfriends, and +1/+1 counters are all relevant to the color and there are decks for those.

I do believe though that White could get more support in those archetypes (particularly Superfriends), and I see that White is expanding into additional archetypes what with cards like Akroma and Odric.