Idling 1500s is never any fun.

If it is as bad as you are suggesting, queue up at a different time (raise above the bracket and skip most of the re rollers). When I 'carried' people for gold (teehee) I never queued up during off-peak, games took too long to get started :P
It really does need to be fixed, I can see why some people get frustrated.

But until then
*jingles gold purse* :P