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>Not to mention the ease that that feature can be abused. What’s to stop the opposing team from just vote kicking the top players on your team?

This is exactly what happened when they had this feature in Overwatch. One of the top (legit) Widow players could not find a game because everyone he played against vote banned him from their games. He was basically unable to play the game because he was too good at it.

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Sure, but you have to expect that. So, you look at the votebans, and you zap the people doing it unfairly. Or, even better, a voteban, legitimate or not, always costs you something--so you think twice before swinging the hammer.

These systems always seem to fail because there is no accountability. You can't allow actions without accountability for those same actions.

The problem is that accountability means involving humans and humans don't scale.

people didn't want to play with him, I don't see the problem.

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