Trust me you're entirely on the wrong way going about this, I am surprised they haven't banned you yet for spamming and cross posting. Its a bad way to get on my radar too. 20 threads on the same subject linking to this one not only does it speak of desperation but a general lack of anything but a bias which for the most part I have come to find out is NOT a community voice at all; instead its the will of one person trying to get his agenda no matter how well educated or uneducated on the subject is pressed through and making him to look like the big hero.
I do recall though that seemingly everyone forgets the largest complaint of the old systems WAS empty matches. We all know that humans are ultimately risk averse creatures at times.
As someone else pointed out all but 8 districts where self locked today. Imagine 200 battle invites going out today and a similar number of fights only had those 8 show up; changing the methods of which people avoid attacks will not change will never change and as long as people have the ability to not log on you're not going to be able to enforce anything. Massive Fee? Transfer isk... Territory loss? Don't have any. One thing you should take note of players is that the larger players are FAR more intelligent than you give them credit for.
The other issue that lead to our current system was burn out. How many big corps dropped entirely off the radar before pc got implemented? quite a few back in those days and lot of these folks don't play; or don't even bother with PC anymore.
As for the feature itself.
Don't expect it to 'come back' as it cannot co-exist with current system. Thus a new system (arena mode as some folks mentioned here) would be needed and quite frankly we're not in a position for that feature yet. Its on the todo list for sure but its lower on the list versus a crap ton of other things that must get done and quite frankly I cannot be bothered to bring this back now I got a new fire to put out.
I am not saying you're a bad person or the intention is bad or the feature wanted is bad.
What I am saying though there are better ways to build up an case, argument, or platform, present it, and make it very hard for ccp to deny its existence of need for it or a change closer to it. Shotgunning it from the hip wont give you the best results, gotta aim for the heart in one strike.