This is solely my personal experience.
So ever since the middle eastern server has been added, whenever I play alone (I’m from India) I get matched into those lobbies. And quite frankly, my experience in these has been extremely horrible. People are very rude and toxic just in general. Insults, tbagging, trash-talking, etc,. you name it and they do it all. Also most of the time nobody even speaks English, so I don’t understand anything they say.
As much as I love the fact I get to play on 60 ping compared to when I play with my friends from the EU and get 130, not at the cost of my sanity and love for the game. I would very much prefer being able to pick between the two without having to run a VPN since that usually makes my ping unstable.
I couldn’t find anything regarding this but I really hope I’m given the ability to pick between the two as I really don’t want to just give up on the game because of something so silly. I know this might be selfish but the quality of the matches I play EU vs Middle East is just night and day.