The new system that was implemented last night-ish (which allows a random player to be chosen as host with majority's vote allowed to -repick a host) is really, really, REALLY bad. It's allowing completely new players to pretty much destroy a lobby or trolls to deliberately screw things up for everyone else. I seriously loved the previous system. I could host a game of my own, open it to public, and then tweak the settings just right. Now that isn't an option. My friends and I seriously must've played this like 15 times in a row last night before the change took place, but now we're really not even that interested just because you have to get really lucky to get a good host chosen at random who will make the settings fun for everyone.
That being said, I really love this game and it has ridiculous potential if it's done right. I'd say the new host system in a step in the wrong direction and I'd advise setting it back to how it used to be (lobby host is default game host). Maybe keep the -repick function incase there's a crappy lobby host. I'm willing to bet that more often than not the original lobby host will know what he's doing, though.
Thanks for reading.