It'd be nice if people could take the time to stop playing the alarmist role. This change has literally not even been put onsite yet and people are talking about the death of the meta. As a community, the best course of action for us is to not let this change be the end of something great, but see it as the change that it is.
Once the dust has settled I will be more than willing to go back on my rule of not banning Pokemon if it becomes apparent that we're in danger of a 4th gen Kyogre, but for now I think we shouldn't talk about throwing in any sort of metaphorical towel.
Edit: the success of BH is largely due to you guys and your dedication to it. I am extremely proud to see how big this community has grown and can grow in the future, but right now we need to learn to work together as opposed to working against each other. Please don't say things like "I'm going to quit" before you've even seen a match with the new system.
Look, I know you're concerned about balance hackmons- but when you literally take away the glue and huge aspect of the metagame, you can't stop people from not liking it.
By taking away such a huge focus that we all took for granted, you are essentially taking away the "glue" that made balanced hackmons precisely free range enough for us to enjoy. Without that glue, the package falss apart. You can try some weird shitty $0.99 brand Duck Tape (bans) but it'll kinda end up a shadow of what it truly was.
Banning stuff isn't going to fix it because the point was in BH- we found stupid funny ways to balance out our metas without having to resort to banning if something isn't truly in essence un-competitive , with this ruling applied and pokemon bans being placed, you really take away the freedom aspect of the meta.
I know you want the community and all the people to be at peace playing this meta again- but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
This is like if the government passed a law to make all forms of drugs, alcohol and tobacco, (cigs, weed, alcohol) illegal and then expected nobody to get mad. (also a reason why they don't make it illegal- it's just a bad business move overall) You can't expect to have this new rule and still have your same community. We're not robots that are stuck on playing BH no matter what- we will get pissed and might even quit if something we invested so much time, so much hours so much days, even MONTHS and YEARS for some- becomes a shell of what it used to be, it becomes something somewhat of an undesirable product/metagame/whatever. Don't forget this isn't just the meta your leading, this is the communities will you have in your palms. If you decide to make just one wrong accidental turn, people will leave. That's just the way it works