Such a bunch of drama queens in these threads, "worst update ever" etc, you guys need to get a grip.
Glad the opt-in/out feature looks like it is coming true. It has been begged for by so many players since CW first came out. CW has polarised players and divided clans, causing an awful lot of annoyance when "not everyone" for whatever reason is able to have time, desire or heroes to war. Clans only had two options - split up into war/non-war (thereby making the war only clans a much quieter place for many), or constantly go through the hassle of kicking/reinviting/maintaining lists of who is out for next war etc. Donations constantly reset, people getting forgotten and included or excluded by mistake, rejoining before search was completed, re-kicking when needing to restart the search - such an enormous faff that has taken far too much time of leaders that can hopefully shortly be put to rest.
So I'm damn well looking forward to this update if this feature is indeed as expected to be included. And maybe some of our long term members who we miss chatting with that left for farming only clans may decide to rejoin, making our war only clans more active again.
As for the minority pleading to nerf HBM - I really hope not at least not without adding a new troop to replace it. Are there a lot of 3 star attacks with them? Hell yes. But wars are *dead boring* without a troop composition that *can* 3 star a max TH10 base. Strings of 60-60 draws in 30 person wars with quality designs where neither side can break the deadlock - now that really is boring. Gowixx attacks for 2 stars are a giant snooze fest, every maxed out base can be two starred with ease. That HBM with its predictable pathing offers an avenue for skilled players to showcase their skills and help decide wars is the single most interesting aspect of clan wars at the top level.
