I don't see any reason for removing that spot as everyone knew about it and it wasn't too overpowered (+it was fun to just jump on it repeatedly in buy phase). Does anyone know if the devs explained why this change went through?

The randomized skins feature that was introduced a few patches ago seems great, but the fact that I can't favorite specific variants of skins is annoying. Adding the ability to favorite specific variants of skins so only those show up in-ga...