Board Game Arena

I think it distorts the experience to a level that competitive play should not be the default for everyone. That being said I am used to setting it off when playing with my regular BGA Gaming group. I think the BGA Implementation should try to mirror the boardgame experience as much as possible, and...

That would be against the rules. In challengers, you do not shuffle your deck in the game. Cards that allow you to look into your deck often also rearrange it, so shuffling makes no sense.

Classic Case of "no UX Designers on BGA". Doing automatic actions and on top of that without writing them down for the Player or any way to undo should be removed here. Actually, even in Produce the Automatic Action works, but creates uncertainty. Saving a click but adding mental load and ...