Please, let us write in chat!

[Karasio]

No. Absolutely not.

Try playing League for a bit. 100% of the meaningful communication is done through pings. Chat is always a dumpster fire. Always.
There's no reason to expect it to be any different here.
You don't have time in combat to type out meaningful commands, and between the brevity of the matches and their strategic simplicity,
there isn't really any need for a significant volume of text outside of combat either.
Chat would just encourage players to sit in spawn flaming their teammates instead of participating in comeback victories.
I'm all for the addition of more Quick Chat options, but opening team chat up would have purely negative results.

In the 30 seconds before matches and during the 20 seconds it takes to respawn, you can plan out something fairly easily. Free chat wouldn't ONLY have negatives, if the dev team added a quick mute feature, like the video game you mentioned has. I stand by free chat having more potential benefit than the downsides

[Iyrnwaen]

In the 30 seconds before matches and during the 20 seconds it takes to respawn, you can plan out something fairly easily. Free chat wouldn't ONLY have negatives, if the dev team added a quick mute feature, like the video game you mentioned has. I stand by free chat having more potential benefit than the downsides

Plan out what? CC has zero strategic depth and very little tactical depth.
The plan is push the crystal, and target macros are superior in every way to calling priorities in spawn before you see enemy positioning.
Chat for CC would be 100% downside. I want my teammates playing the match and trying to win, not sitting in spawn having a dialogue about whose fault it is that the first engagement went south.