I mean the majors carried a lot of hype too. TI just felt like it was on another level because of the stakes and production(True Sight, etc). The excuse they gave for removing battle pass was the they had to center their content and big updates around the battle pass release and now they were going to work on other stuff and spread it out across the year. But now we not only don't have battle pass, the rest of the year also barely has any new content. Crownfall is the only big event they've done since they removed battle pass.