If I were to put my feet into aly's, and if I were chairman of the board, I'd think that (more) battles played in modern (even if they're bot matches) is good for the eco system, because this is good for "daily active users". Will the bots move to wild if it passes?

Hard to say. Would it drop the daily active users?

Hard to say. If I'm Chairman of Splinterlands (which I'm not) - daily active users would certainly be my number one metric, and I'd be voting in favour of whatever achieved that.

Note that daily active users is a very different metric to daily active human users ;)

Finally, a comment to close this position of devil's advocate: You are what you measure.