As it is, games starting a player or more short are commonplace. When one of the missing players failed to enter by hitting snooze (instead of merely being afk or letting it time out), the place is held and the time out becomes longer. Often they still do not enter. When this happens queues are held up and everyone else waiting in line cannot enter - and the team currently playing doesn't get their fourth or fifth member.
Remove the feature, in practice it does more harm than good. It makes mismatched games stay mismatched.
Confirmed by a week of staring at /who ghost ship with nobody ahead of me and still not entering the match, and by folks on VOIP.
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