sounds to me that now that CTF is gone everybody misses it and wants it back. I bet anything if Dusty ever managed to fix the issue and re-opened it after like 3 weeks all the excitement would be gone and the traffic there would die of almost completely.
I think it needed a different format anyways. Get stuck on a random team of people (usually noobs) with uneven numbers and if you manage to win the match you get a very low amount of gralats. Just seems like there could have been more to it. One thing for sure it needed a que entering system to keep the teams/matches even.