I can respect Valorant for trying to have a better community but come on what are these changes they are trying to add. People getting hardware banned for simply afking??? that is absolutely crazy considering how outside factors contribute to these numbers of afks. Also being toxic will also get you hardware banned??? come on you're an fps game I know no one likes toxic teammates but getting hardware banned over it is crazy considering how people in your own professional league are toxic yet at this point nothing happens to them. Legit just sounds like people can play victim, cause an outburst, and get people banned or if people disconnect for reasons outside of their control they get hardware banned.
SO my takes on this entire system:
ADD A REPUTATION SYSTEM. Basically the same as games like Brawl Stars where if the majority of the team reports you saying that you were a horrible teammate for things like afking or being toxic then you lose rep which THEN leads to bans and penalties not this be toxic or afk = 300 hours ban which is just hella dumb. This way if you have higher rep then you can play with players who also have higher rep which will lead to ACTUALLY GOOD TEAMMATES. (rito idk how you haven't figured this out yet its not that difficult). They can also make it so if you're in a party with 3 people or a majority of the team the reports count as less reduction of rep since I know some people are scummy and want to just mass report someone just because they feel like it.
ADD SMS VERIFICATION. God damn I don't know why rito hasn't added this yet they already added it for premier why don't they add it for comp? I know for a fact that the people playing valorant have a sms that they can use for verification or they have a parent/guardian who can give theirs to use for it. Not only will this kill the number of alt accounts/smurfs but also will kill the amount of bots you encounter in your games that just throw the game or make the game unfair for you.
rito if you need someone to fix your causal competitive scene hire me its not very difficult to do so.