I think EW and all “fast paced” game modes have the same issue.
There are a lot of “agressively minded” players, who don’t like to lose against defensive play. The issue is, that purely agressive game modes are heavily execution based. So most of them jsut get stomped - as the actual ranked mode in most elos (about 600-1800) heavily favors aggressive play. But less execution depending as there are still enough defensive players to allow for off-meta strats to be competitive.
So then these people who called for the aggressive game mode get stomped by those who are just better in meta exectution and lose all interest in that mode. Also because it’s so extremely repetitive.
The thing these agressively minded players don’t see often, is that the current standard ranked game mode already heavily favors them - because they are MATCHED with better defensive players whos elo got dumped cause they are disfavored in this mode.
And this is why these agressive modes atm just won’t be competitive with the standard ranked play - and there is little to no reason to even try to revive them.