Interesting thoughts!
Personally, I am not particularly into competitive gameplay in general, with some exceptions. The shooters feel competitive and casual in multiplayer, as your team is trying to win the match, although losing has a low impact, and players can join and leave during matches as they please. Having official competitive modes added in a shooter is something that I would be willing to try out (I know we had modes such as Ranked Battle Arena for competitive players, however they ended up getting removed).
I find that there is a lot of variety between the classes of the opposing factions, sometimes to the point where their attacks and playstyles are completely different. With the healers, I prefer healing over attacking, so even though Scientist is more suited to close range, I would rather attack at a range so I can stay near allies, unless the enemies get close to us, however with Sunflower, I can simply shoot at most ranges to deal damage to enemies while consistently healing allies. The classes play out very differently a lot of the time. I do like the differences between the character classes, although perhaps as a baseline, they should play out more similarly to their counterparts (although variants could spice this up).
I would like to see a competitive form of Turf Takeover. I do not really know how it would work out, although it could act as a Suburbination style game mode, where both teams are trying to capture a capture point or multiple (which is like Suburbination Isolation). Competitive game modes should include a basic tutorial on how to play them in game and should deny new players from accessing it (so they can rank up and become more experienced first).
It is annoying that some characters are really overpowered and never got nerfed, while some other characters are underpowered and never got buffed. This makes some lobbies and game modes very unbalanced, as your team or your enemy team may be playing the meta characters (which are not going to get nerfed). I do hope we get a new shooter, so that there is a chance for some of the balance to be restored, more competitive modes to be added and simply for the PvZ shooter community as we really want another shooter.
