This sounds pretty awesome tbh, I think anet should get back to its roots. Most people have had enough of the failed experiment that is gw2.
People will always blame any system. True is that even arround HA and GvG there were lot of QQ posts, lots of discussions.
But it worked still well, GW1 created the best PvP comunity in any MMO i have seen so far and that was an amazing job.