Frankly, I do not see the harm in asking for a re-release of beta Gwent, and there are a number of us who do indeed have the interest to play that game again, a game which we no longer have as of the Homecoming patch (although the Midwinter patch also had significant negative effects for Gwent as people knew it - Homecoming was just an attempt to fix the mistakes of Midwinter patch - hence the name Homecoming - with the same thinking that was used to create it, and thus decided the issue was that they didn't double down on their new design direction enough). It is also telling that while there have been efforts to revive beta Gwent, there has been no effort to create any form of custom server for the current game. At the end of the day, there is a demand for beta Gwent, even if most of us have moved on to other games by this point, as it is likely that an official relaunch of beta Gwent will garner interest that this new game we have been left with does not share.
And may I ask, by what basis do you present that strongly-worded claim of there being "absolutely no chance"?
From what I can tell, it is precisely because the current Homecoming-patch based game is largely discontinued that there shouldn't be any trouble re-releasing beta Gwent. It is by no means difficult to make the client available for download again, set up the old Gwent server software, and let people play the original. All of that software is still fully functional and would not require any active development. At most there would have to be some looking into how scraps and whatnot will be handled for existing Gwent accounts, but that is quite manageable. You make a simple determination on how you intend to transfer scraps and run a DB script to populate accounts with the appropriate amount of scraps and whatnot. I honestly see no reason whatsoever why the existence of "balance council" somehow precludes any of this.