Piggyback on "Can we have Real Solo queue Ranked Exprienece ?"

[Piggyback on https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/E4tQ1J8p-can-we-have-real-solo-queue-ranked-exprienece ]

Having a "real" Solo queue simply makes sense. It makes much more sense than allowing people to queue as 1 in Flex but not as 4... but Riot must have a reason for that one, right? I don't think that Riot would do something just because it makes sense unless it has something to do with making more money, getting more people to play, or getting people to play more often. I can only guess that the reason we have Solo/Duo instead of Solo is because Riot believes more people will use the queue if they can play with (or be carried by) friends. Solo instead of Solo/Duo would better evaluate individual skill but if that was the goal of the queue, Riot probably would have made it that way already.

Riot should have a Solo queue for individual players ONLY and a Flex queue for any number of players or maybe just for teams of 2, 3, and 5 but why would they do that? I've personally noticed that many individuals use Flex to troll or try new champs/strategies, so if Riot changes the parameters of the queues then people might actually take Flex more seriously. That change may or may not decrease the number of trolls in the queue but why would Riot want that? Unfortunately, such Ranked parameter changes may increase queue times which may decrease ranked activity and I don't think that Riot would risk that just to make sense.

Out of curiosity, do you guys think that changing Solo/Duo to Solo would decrease the number of participants in the queue because people don't want to play alone, increase the activity in the queue because people would be more motivated to show off their individual skill, and/or increase the number of participants in Flex queue?