It does not make sense to me and many others why ranking a map has to be this difficult. Many great maps do not get ranking status due to the very very high requirements, which are often not even about quality.
Solutions to me would be making the guidelines and rules of ranking a map much more lenient, or making a seperate status (next to ranked, approved and loved) where maps will get leaderboards and pp, but not ranked status.
These maps would require a few things, such as:
- not abusing the pp system in any way
- be timed and offset properly
- follow the song properly
- be high quality and high effort, which would have to be determined what is defined as such
This way ranked maps can still be curated as high quality according to the current standards and be recommended to (newer) players, but other maps can also gain the things that are most important to many players like leaderboards, pp and the permanence of the scores set on the maps.