That's an interesting discussion you're having here. Which brings me to my kind of controversial opinion: the whole ranking process is a joke. In 3 years of playing this game, I've never ever seen a map becoming noticeably better after years of mapper searching for BAT's, asking for mods and trying to squeeze his mapset into the ranked criteria.
https://osu.ppy.sh/b/162405 this easily comes to mind. The map was ready to go in 2012, yet it was ranked only in 2014. Was it worth the time and the efforts to rank it? I think not. I enjoyed it back then, I enjoy it now just the same.
If a map is enjoyable to play, people won't care about anything else, people won't care about unrankable patterns, lack of harder/easier difficulties etc. etc. Hell, you can just rank all of Zapy's maps right now and I can guarantee you, not a single person will be upset.
So why do we need all these artificial barriers again?
Also, while we're at it, and if this request is gonna go through, people were always making 2 diffs of the same beatmap: AR9 and AR10. Just make AR adjustable already, like in osu!mania. Again, I guarantee you, the ratio of people happy/upset about this will be 99/1
Just some controversial thoughts, don't get your panties in a wad over it please