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For the first half of last year I invested a lot of time into grinding QPs to qualify for multiple Magic Online Championship Series events. Most of my QPs came from 8-person events, which is the slow, painful and low EV way to do things. My schedule just didn't work well with the Daily Events schedule, and that's why I was very happy to see this announcement. The DE schedule now actively tries to make is possible for fans of any format to have a couple days a week to play their format of choice.
More Pauper support and a more concerned eye on scheduling Legacy events when they'll actually fire both make me very happy. While I don't really play either format online these days, it's still good to see those who do being supported.
There's still a lot of room for improvement with MTGO, of this I'm sure. Changes like this at least show that WotC is listening though. Not being a programmer, I don't know how much work goes into making all the changes that people want to see from MTGO, but I do know that making events more accessible is a great move for the program regardless of functionality otherwise.
Now if only we could get 5-3-2-2 drafts.