ARENAS

As a seasoned arenas player before it was cut, I believe I remember them trying this very same “improvement update “ before and the player base hated it. While yes, it is nice to have fresh new things and ideas, but OG arenas is straight up like chess. Strategy and skill. Perfect as is. Please just leave it the way it was. Mess around with mixtape and BR. 
Also, I also seem to remember us players being promised that arenas would be permanently restored, and not just be an LTM.   

Whats going on Respawn / EA?

The arenas update is good. The problem was that people were buying devotions every round and was very annoying. Now arenas are more balanced than before and I hope they bring ranked arenas back.

But this could just as easily happen in duos, trios or any other mode except Arena—so why the restrictions in Arena? I use Arena to practice specific weapons since I can choose them right from the start. I don´t like it, give everyone the freedom to choose whichever weapon they want, and use it as often as they like. I'm 100% certain the player count in Arena mode has gone down since the update.