ThorSerpent, Live Ops Director, CDPR: "we've decided to move Casual to another place - mostly due to the popular confusion it was causing to new players. While experienced players won't have much issue finding this mode if they really want to play it".
It's a conscious choice by CDPR to bury Unranked mode in the UI.
As long as I've played GWENT, Training mode has always been single player only.
I had to come to this forum to ask what happened to Unranked mode.
Why would you assume that it was in the Training mode?
Why wouldn't you assume that CDPR hadn't just ditched Unranked mode?
The old way was intuitive.
If new players were confused, it would just be a minor embarrassment to them to point out that if they didn't want to play Unranked mode, they should untick the box right smack bang in the centre of the of the match-up screen for doing just that. In other words, what they needed to do wasn't hidden. CDPR have hidden how to play Unranked mode. Why shouldn't your options be obvious? Do you really have to make a point of bookmarking patchnotes and reading a wall of text to find this stuff?
This is a case of CDPR funnelling players into playing the game how CDRP wants them to play out, without regard to how players want to play it. So, they just made it a pain to play the game how they want to play it.
Now, if 'solutions' to this issue are implemented, you'll have the outcome of occasionally people playing the wrong mode (solo, Unranked) because they forgot to tick or untick a box which is in an uninintuitive place. It will be a convoluted solution to a problem of CDPR's own making.
I don't want to be penalised for playing the mode that I want to play by being forced to do more work in order to do just that.