what's the point of removing maps from casual rotation?

[Mitziete]

I understand removing them from ranked obviously and i understand removing the super unbalanced maps like bartlett but what's the point of removing casual when casual is basically never gonna be someone's choice for warming up now that we have unranked to do that in?

[Behind you❓❗シ]

Operation Ember Rise also brings a few modifications to the map pools of various playlists. Casual will be reduced from 20 maps to 14, while Ranked and Unranked are down to 12, from 14. To start off the season, the maps that are being cycled out of Casual are: House, Presidential Plane, Yacht, Favela, Theme Park and Tower.

The Casual playlist will also have a new rotation system, cycling 3 maps in and out every month. The reduced number of maps will give players the opportunity to familiarize themselves more with the map pool, while the rotation will allow for more diversity. The first monthly rotation will take out Skyscraper, Fortress and Oregon, and replace them with Tower, Presidential Plane, and House.

On the side of Ranked and Unranked: Hereford, Theme Park and Fortress are being removed, while the brand new rework of Kanal will be added.

The biggest change to the map pool, however, is that night mode will no longer be available in the Casual and Newcomer playlists. It will only be playable through Custom Game. Also, Theme Park will be removed from all playlists in preparation for its rework with Season 4.
https://rainbow6.ubisoft.com/siege/en-us/game-info/seasons/emberrise/index.aspx

[Jackal]

its a moronic decision to cater to esports , the developers lost touch and we're feeling the ramifications this season, and probably all future "Seasons" now with battlepass

[spice_]

"similiar experience"

[Vampdreamer]

It's a moronic decision so that noobs that come into the game see the "new" maps in rotation every month and think they just got free content.
We went from getting new maps and ops and weapons each season to getting new ops and a bug fix. And that is new content. Apparently Ubi is the only company in this universe where operating costs for a repeating process get higher each year than going down...
They do that while at the same time introduce battle pass (the last form of monetisation this game did not have) on top of all known and existing monetisation methods they already have in place.
Plus they buy themselves time to work on bugs. It is much worse trying to fix crappy code and bugs on 30 maps and different on 3.
The game development team is ♥♥♥♥ and all their decision for the past 2 years have also been utter ♥♥♥♥.