I just KNEW that custom lobbies would lead to players abusing the system to farm, which in turn would lead to devs take drastic measures to prevent that from happening, but with catastrophic collateral damage. Just like in WT.
What can I say? Maybe we should even be glad that the draconian “solution” was outright killing the newborn mode, instead of nerfing XP gains for everybody?
Which is possibly (hopefully?) the reason why limiting bots number may have been a temporary emergency hotfix while they arrange a more ponderated measure.