Hm,
I think SM is generally a tedious game were it not for the fact that I love strategy games, I surely wouldn't be playing.
I believe Alex is doing a lot, but he is just 1 person, more crew would speed up the process.
As for what I said before, you can understand there are few new players because progress is sooooo slow, and new players quit before reaching r5, effectively meaning that for me, the matchups are the same over and over and over again.
The fact that players are leaving is obvious, lg left, boss took a break, bestie took a break to name a few, I could obviously find at least 100, but I can't be bothered, however new players come in as well, and it is normal for people to leave a game. The problem is that since progress is so slow, new players all leave as well.
Anyways, my point remains, without new items, the game is even more tedious, so I'd appreciate new items, or more events such as the one Alex already made, the 100 tokens for 10 arena wins event, which increased arena participation, making it much more fun.
I made a proposal to permanently increase arena participation, hoping Alex looks at it, it got very positive feedback