Riot, what are you actually doing to improve dynamic queue?
TL;DR Riot keeps using improving dynamic queue as an excuse to hold off solo queue which would work just fine on its own, but they haven't done anything major to improve the problems they're having since dynamic queue came out.
The excuse we see for not adding solo queue is that you want to fix dynamic queue first. Yet the only visible fix I can currently remember are the bug fixes in champ select like originally not being able to select ward skins or chroma packs. According to the most recent Riot post on the subject, your goals are:
- improving the solo player experience against premades
- lowering queue times
- smoothing out role selection weight
The first one has the most obvious solution of adding solo queue which you just flat out refuse to do because it would destroy dynamic queue even though solo queue would work perfectly on its own.
The second goal probly has some more effective match making algorithms that you might be able to find, but I'm willing to bet the majority of the problem is highly related to the same thing causing the problem for goal three - not enough supports.
Smoothing out role selection weight has a bunch of possible solutions, but I've yet to see anything mentioned or tried. You said yourselves when dynamic queue came out that supports might be underselected and you might have to implement incentives to keep selections even, but you definitely haven't done that yet. You could follow the recommendation that's been made countless times and allow option 3rd and 4th role preference picks for those that want more than 2. You could garuntee a primary pick after so many games as a secondary pick in a row. The list of possibilities goes on, but we haven't seen anything implemented.
I honestly would be so upset about you using dynamic queue as an excuse to avoid adding solo queue if you were actually taking strides to improving dynamic queue. But all you seem to be doing is checking if you can modify match making alogorithms behind the scenes which is pretty much garunteed to never reach the goals you want.