Nothing they can do now - they needed to act 6 weeks ago. I made a post about it a 3 days after the season began, warning of the obvious issues that were about to follow, namely, healers being extremely unfun to play in shuffle and damage from wizards being far too high. What I didn’t predict was that they’d return to SL S4 levels of deflation, which stings extra hard given we just left an extremely inflated season (at least for SS.)
I personally didn’t think they’d make that mistake twice, given it completely killed SL S4 just days after it arrived, but yeah, they made that mistake too.
I say theres nothing they can do because all of the casuals already left - those that remained were the hardcore, those too have now left thanks to D4.
When will they return? Maybe 3-4 months from now maybe - and this is the problem with letting your game stagnate in 2023. Players have options. In 2004 we had no option. If you messed up a patch, our options were play it anyway, or go touch grass. Now, most people have a library of 50-500 games to play at the drop of a hat or after a quick download that rival or surpass WoW. They can’t afford to be slow anymore, yet they do it anyway, and it will end up killing the game.
I also begged for some class tuning - but i should have also asked them to not nerf healers yet again when already no one is playing them. my bad, I guess: