Educated DQ Discussion... ohgodno...
Okay... DQ is bad, DQ is good, whatever. There are a lot of people AGAINST DQ, myself included. By now, everyone knows that Solo Queue is not coming back (that is really all we know, we don't know if it's only for this season or what.)
That being said, DQ is actually a pretty neat system. It does in fact incorporate a lot of really neat ideas that focus around team play andis actually pretty dynamic. DQ is inherently casual, it's fun and all around not that serious. Reason being, your premade isn't really going to grill you that hard for doing badly, or missing that fight winning 
charm. These reasons are exactly why it doesn't belong in a ranked atmosphere. I will remove the contraction for clarity, DOES NOT belong in ranked.
There was a lot of fuss for a while about how DQ and SQ cannot exist at the same time. And that is correct, they cannot exist in the same ranked ladder, at the same time. The wait times would be much worse than they are now, and people suspect that DQ would fall by the wayside. The destruction is what Riot does not want, even though they claim that they will do away with it if it would solve the problems they are trying to fix.
From all of this I ask two main questions.
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How long will these problems (High queue times, unbalanced matchmaking, etc.) have to go unsolved (or not hit their target numbers [close enough is NOT an acceptable solution Riot.]) before enough is enough and you discover that the problems innate with DQ cannot be fixed and you find a solution outside of DQ?
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Why is so important that more people play ranked? DQ is great for a casual environment, but with all the band aids applied to DQ in the months since its release, it is clear by now that options are running thin.
P.S. Riot, we love feedback we get from you, open communication is important to a player base. Having said that, when you communicate, people want straight shooting, not this Wanted level curvy bullet crap that has been happening. When you make a claim about data, and you don't provide that data, you automatically lose the argument. That is just basic logic.