Make a map that tries to experiment with patterns or is different enough to stand out and you must be a popular mapper to get away with it. It is impossible to get shit ranked that attempts to be different. Yes, maps need to be have a degree of playability and relevance to the song. However, it doesn't need to follow the song strictly and there must be room for creativity to allow mappers set challenges and designs the mapper wants to. Attempt to rank a map that is quite different from the usual map in a sense that they have patterns that you wouldn't normally find in other maps. Make the map technical, rough, repeating, and challenging. Then you get modders saying to remap the thing because it looks weird. Go learn mapping in addition to that. Just because the patterns look weird does not mean I have to go learn how to map. I intend to do something different because so many ranked map looks like the same shit. Modding has become an inert echo chamber of stale meta.