saamTwiggysince there is multiple seasons per year both in esea and etf2l it would be cool to have 'themed' map pools, like 1 season with regular maps, one season with 2 koth maps and one season with something else (1 A/D map and one upcoming map for example).
If $$$ or cups.jpg become an issue playoffs/lans can still be played with the consensual map pool.
Highlander has this obsession with changing maps every season and it's super dumb. It also means almost every season has a map so bad people won't even try on it.
Map list should be the 8 best maps available and it shouldn't be changed until a better one comes along.
I agree that maps shouldn't be inserted into the rotation that aren't objectively "good" maps, like what was happening before when horrible maps were getting voted into the rotation. That being said, I think these 4 maps barring some slight tweaking (maybe warmfront a little more) are more than playable in the rotation. what makes these maps "good" for the most part i think comes down to preference, I know tons of people who love badlands and just as many that absolutely loathe it and its been in rotation since day 1. Sometimes I think it should be considered that adding in new things that teams need to adapt to and learn is a good asset to creating good competition, not just keeping what is objectively "the best" and what every team is comfortable with playing. by forcing teams to become masters at something new, or giving other teams who maybe aren't great with the current rotation a chance to also become good on a map that another team hasn't, I think you're adding a really healthy and solid situation to competitive play in general.
plus it would just be fucking fun to play some new maps :)