Not surprisingly these best out of 5 matches have a huge amount of variance. Might as well have, makes things more interesting when upsets have more frequently.
I feel like Timed mode needs some kind of tournament system as well, since it seems like pretty much everyone is playing these new tourneys instead of it. Obviously these are easier to play in that you don't need to have players be online at the same time (and Gaby has enough time to actually finish games
).
Maybe similar where you can play hu matches in a single elimination, but could be other possibilities as well, for example some kind of set amount of games that count and you get points for finishing positions. For example 4 players play 10 games, points gained are 4-3-2-1 (or 5-3-2-1 if win is valued more) for each game based on finishing positions. Then just combine points for the games to see who wins etc. Or another option would be to just chasing wins until one player has for example 5 wins. Another mode could be cumulative score over a set amount of games.