Watching this very inciteful interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOkkG5dsrs8&t=832s
I think it's clear the devs would like to, and are building towards bringing alot of our favorite modes back. Just wanted to piggy back off of this and offer some motivating feedback to the devs.
My experience, and at least 20 of my friends who used to play online franchise day and night. We'd put 100s of hours into it. Since this mode has been eliminated we have spent alot less time on the game. Less time in DD, less time buying stubs, less time in basically every way.
I think if you could prioritize bringing this mode back sooner than later you would see a bump in gameplay in all of the other modes, and in stubs transactions, etc.
Thanks for the time you took to read this.