Ideas
I get this very frequently now in the past two days. It continues onward this noon after the unscheduled server maintenance. I'm playing solo. Always have been. At most times, the server lobby is capped at a 100 or however many players fit in (occassionally checking the social screen where you can spectate and teleport to others) -- never had this issue before. Even playing coop with crossplay, two consoles, and a PC, varying loading times (?) and it always started instantly. Nowdays however? I have to wait 1-2 minutes for any one mission to start. Are you telling me there are limited slots for each mission and the game tries to wait until others have completed x challenge? That would make no sense! The game hides all other entities by default anyway when I'm inside a challenge so why would there be limited slots??? This bug is devastating and honestly makes me want to log off immediately again. Please make a great effort to remove more and more friction (non-gameplay) from this title!!
Related wish: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/skate-en/request-gameplay-options-for-better-flow/12528704