Guild Wars 2

I was just wondering why people think they decided to introduce the stronghold gametype before arena?

We already have one game mode made for teams. In my opinion, would it have not been more wise to add another game mode for smaller groups, or another game mode for more casual / solo play?

Instead they made another game mode for the same team queue player base?

You could argue Stronghold is the more casual/solo-able game type, but with the the leaderboards coming out, and being able to queue for stronghold in ranked or unranked, it does not seem to be the case.

The community has made it very clear that 2v2 or 3v3 is something this game definitely needs (through tournaments & forum posts) I personally know many people that will not play this game solely because the are no arenas.

The Annihilation/Arena game mode could have been the solo game type and the small team game type. By splitting it into two queues ( unranked soloq + Ranked team queue with leaderboards )

Now if this where to happen we would have six different queues, plus the server browser.

What does everyone think? Should conquest and stronghold have separate queues? is stronghold a preferable game mode to arenas?