Questions about pvp
The Anet team added Stronghold to ranked, but took it out prior to S5 because it was easily farmed by premades. That was also true of Conquest and Anet made the solo/duo queue to compensate, but inexplicably didn’t add Stronghold back in.
I mentioned that to make the point that Anet had an interest in diversifying sPvP more, but seems to have forgotten about that. The small sPvP team has many things to focus on, like improving matchmaking, changing the league system, and class balancing, and as a result new game modes seem to have fallen by the wayside. There are far more “ugh i hate DH/Warrior REEEEE” threads than threads asking for new game modes, so that’s where they focus their limited resources. If you’re looking for a response from the dev team then just sit tight, they don’t directly communicate very often.