Hey (long post sorry)! As someone who's always played LR as top 1, top 2 has honestly grown on me. I think it is less punishing especially for all the new players. At the moment, there's a significant line in the community between old-heads playing, and new players discovering JB for the first time. If LR is top 1, it punishes the newer player so much more and can feel discouraging, as half the player base has hundreds if not thousands of hours on OS maps and therefore has a much higher chance of winning (skill gap obviously, but annoying nonetheless).
I think there are a couple annoyances with top 2 being LR in it's current state. The primary one being the option to rebel. Rebelling should be all or nothing, not one person gun tossing whilst the other 1v8s.
A solution to this could be simply a vote. If one of the last 2 alive select the option to rebel, its all or nothing, the other T has to agree. Could be simply 'Sun Tzu wants to do an AWP rebel, do you agree?' and if not, the other T has to play an actual LR game. Alternatively, if the other T loses their game or dies, rebelling now becomes an option for the solo T alive.
Not sure of peoples opinions on this, as the LR'ing process is already a longer one than we are all used to due to the way the LR menu works in this version, but it may provide less friction for CTs.
To combat the time taken to choose a rebel, perhaps an independent rebel command can be used instead of !lr. A T could write (in team chat or using /) !rebel, and then pick their rebel option. This then provides a message that only T's can see stating 'old mate wants to rebel', with an !y or !n to agree or disagree. This may make it quicker, a quick yes/no and then if no, just go back to !lr normally and select your game.
Also, this may assist Zone-x's response in that there is more freedom if there is only 1 T left, yes this will always be true in essence, but a 2v8 backstab rebel is possible, or 2v8 awp rebel, or 2v8 gun toss etc. It just needs to be cooporative, not combative.
That being said, always happy with the 2 LRers (real word) doing their own separate games, just would appreciate if rebelling was both or none (or one if last alive).
'nyways, just my thoughts and opinions. Would love to hear other's. Much love.
P.S. getting picky about the phrasing of last request is useless when you realise that it's not the "last terrorist's" request, but the last request of the terrorist(s). One final request before they die. It doesn't matter how many people are alive, it's about their personal final request.
