The Frontlines Premade issue has not been fixed.

[BubblyBoar]

So basically you want FL to devolve into a game of luck rather with your suggestion of implementing permanent Freelancer and the breakdown of 8-mans. With the changes you propose, you're basically rolling the dice to see if you have either:

1.) Prominent FL players, people who listen well, and skilled healers
2.) Bots, AFK farmers, and Griefers who troll shot calls.

The game literally becomes just pure luck where you either roll mostly decent teammates or just horrible players. This is just to make it fair?

You gotta have more faith in the randos. Yes, those lazy people will exist, but in my games where I try and lead or get people focused, the response usually ends well and people actually try. My incident rate of lazy or afkers is pretty low during prime times. I also don't have an issue with 8 mans, it's them stacking into one GC that is my problem.