First, the whole die on a ground mission and go back the the beginning has been there long before season 5.

Second, I remember very loud demands from the pro-DP crowd way back that having lots of respawn points was a bad thing and had to be changed for the good of the game (in their opinion).

So, who does Cryptic cater to? The people who demand less respawn points as an incentive to avoid death or the person who complains there are not more respawn points on a given map to lessen the implications of their own in-game death?

To me it seems like a crap deal for Cryptic. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.