Cheaters have taken over console lobbies

To me the key word in that description of the problem was "fresh accounts." If people feel the need to cheat, that's one thing. But allowing an unlimited number of secondaries means not only that they can get caught cheating and then immediately cheat the ban on an alternate account, but it also means they're cheating the matchmaker. Which would at least, on the original account, move them into lobbies filled with other cheaters.

Until Respawn can acknowledge the magnitude of the secondary problem, and that most players who have them are using them to beat the matchmaker AND to beat cheat bans, then this entire discussion is dead in the water. And they will NEVER acknowledge that secondaries are anything other than a way for them to make their player count look higher than it really is.