I saw a lot of the ESOC tournament games from the ESOC patch days on YouTube, so firstly: woah.
I do have to slightly disagree though. I think ranked modded lobbies would be a great idea, and they should do it. But I think they should still make a final attempt to improve balance in the base game. A lot of what I think should be changed is pretty simple overall and just leaving it unchanged with Otto and Baja Mexico being very oppressive on the unmodded ladder seems wrong imo.
Edit:
This is from another thread, a lot has been happening on Steamdb. No one knows for sure what it means, but maybe a patch is in the works. If so, given the amount of time it’s been in the works it’d probably be pretty big. Knowing this does play into my opinion a bit.