Then i agree.
The current rating has some issues. 1v1 rating seems pretty accurate, but TG rating is pretty bad. I made my own thread about this issue as well:
I feel like ratings are a bit off. And i think i am not the only one who thinks there are some weird things into the ratings. So i decided to have a look. I used the following source: https://thbrown.github.io/aoe2-de-rating-charts/ This site only shows data for Ranked RM games. I would love to see some statistics about DM (both 1v1 and teamgames) and unranked maps. I dont really have a guess about DM, but i think the results of unranked are even more extreme than the results for RM team game…
So i support every suggestion that will fix this issue. I have heard about Glicko-2 (or TrueSkill). Both systems claim to be more accurate than just the Elo system. I havent really looked into those two systems, but based on their claims, both might be the solution of the current issues.
I think water maps aren’t that popular because people see them as too difficult to play because is another set of mircoing and meta to learn.
Yeah, most players seem to prefer open land maps. Closed maps are seen as boring.
I with the lack of different units and thus strategies are the reason why people dont really like water maps. Too difficult isnt really part of the issue.