IF this leads to having an additional active team in the competition long term, i think the positives outweights the arguments against it which seem to resume to "but my calculator simulation hockey league integrity". If you would rather have an uncompetitive nation with few active players, can you claim to be invested in IIHF well being? Right now, without being involved in anything related to this, I can definitly see thats theres enthusiasm around this from a group of users. If you are apathetic to this, its statut quo anyway since you probably don,t care about solving the IIHF's inactive nation problem anyway in the first time, or don't have the means to.

Basically, its the same old situation where motivated and enthusiasmed users answer the call to solve an issue, then apathetic people on the sidelines decide it doesn't go a way they like but didn't act on the same opportunity that was presented to them weeks ago.

Shoutout to everyone handling crap thrown to them for taking action in this, I appreciate the work you put freely on the site.