FNH
F is for Finchi, N is for Nator, H is for Hater
Your first argument, which Posho also stated, is not, as a whole, a terrible idea. Resetting the tier and then rebuilding it from the ground up is feasible method to finding a solution. The current conversation has yielded a wide variety of "solutions" being proposed by many users, some more drastic than others: ranging from banning everything to the tier is fine as is just ban kings rock (please). Currently all propossed solutions being rather subjective takes on how to fix the tier, rooted in a layer of theory-monning. Resetting the tier does give a vehicle in which we can objectively test and see what went wrong. But as great as a step back would be to look at where things went wrong, I almost wonder though what would change? I don't think I can look back on suspect tests and argue that any reached terrible decisions. Sleep ban is one I argee with. The same goes for Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Deoxys-D, Blaziken, Lando-I, Shaymin-Sky, Gensect, etc. I just see a lot of whats already been changed being implemented in the same manor as before. Which would bring us back to square 1, right where we started. The only way to make this plausible is if we banned something else that wasn't banned or unbanned something that is banned. As it stands there is not a lot of discussion for unbanning anything banned, but instead the discussion has been forcused on banning stuff that is unbanned which eliminates the needs of a tier reset. For example, a vocal group of players believe the Excadrill unban was a mistake; why do we need to go through a tier reset to remedy this mistake, we can just test it here and now. I personally think Ferrothorn is broken, same goes for scald. Lets just test it here and now. What ever others think needs to get tested lets just test. Personnally though, I dont see how a tier reset would get us anywhere but back to where we are now.Bro i feel like there are 2 very simple and objective solutions for BW (if you wanna ever do smt about it). You can either:
1) free everything, reset the tier and start to re-tiering from 0, the current state of BW cant get fixed or improved in any way since you (BW council) ruined the tier in the past 5 years with terrible decisions; or
2) pretend like this gen doesnt exist and dont play it from now on, then its gonna eventually get removed off our circuit and the problem is gonna disappear. We talked about BW on baril and like, we reached the conclusion that BW is played for the simple fact of the tier existing. Nobody plays BW for it being good, or fun, or healthy, people play BW cause they are forced to, at least 10 players need to get sacrificed during spl for it and thats it. Just delete it.
As for your second "solution" not a bad idea, let us make the Smogon classic comprised of gens 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 and elimate BW and RBY. Obviously joking, but "haha" reacts are always appreciated :)