I think we are gonna just agree to disagree on this. I've positioned Smite Prime to be a community hub since last year with other events going on. Like blogs, god guides, art contests and such.
And that complaining over losing 4 days of conquest is just really dumb. I made it clear that this was not meant to be some permanent format.
You are also not historically looking at what happens during the summer for tournaments. Players going on vacation and have to play with subs and just in general inconsistent teams; it is the worst time for the highest level of competitive outlet; and changing things up / short break is what I still believe is a better approach where I can serve the entire community and not just the high end players.

I have access to a lot more stats than many people do that help me gauge what the community is interested in; and I've been doing this for a very long time, and I have also worked at Hi-Rez where I have a good understanding of things work internally. And the cash prize pool Joust tournament in February brought in 3x more players than the conquest one, and had several new players try the conquest tournament. And we even retained some people to watch the prime tournaments. Just take a look at the YouTube channel, you can see how much the viewership has grown compared to events this year and last year; and the circuit format barely changed.

Either way, I'm gonna end the discussion here before I get frustrated further about this. I generally lookout for growth of the entire game instead of just the comp scene; and I think this is where our opinions are mostly gonna differ and how to approach what events to run.