I'm not sure I'm big on this change, hardcore PVP'er here and enjoyed grinding for the weekly, even if I was solo queuing on a bad day, made it seem more worthwhile.
As far as this goes, you shouldn't be allowed to queue solo for ranked, it's going to be nerfed eventually, because of PVE'ers joining and whinging why they are getting absolutely turbo ****ed all the time. Currently ranked on most servers is massively competitive, it wants to stay that way.