I just don't understand why considering they knew they couldn't do anything with gvg to convert it to mobile probably 7 years ago now, why they didn't just spend time some point during those years rewriting gvg from scratch to make a newer one available? If they had done that they could have added a time limited pay wall line for activity in that based on amount of fights etc and players still would have played paying or not. I doubt many would have complained even if they needed to fully restart stats from scratch.
The whole "only 5% play" or whatever they stated, they created that situation by sitting on their hands and not bringing it to mobile. If the current code couldn't work there was absolutely nothing stopping them starting it again.
It's fairly obvious from how much activity there is with gbg that players want to real-time fighting and to fob players off with this QI with zero cross guild interaction apart from a leader board is a crazy solution. whatever they do with gvg and QI the two aren't remotely related in any way, not even sure why gvg needs to close to allow this garbage to be added. If would have been more relevant being included in a announcement about settlements.