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@JonoMarshall
Essentially you're talking about New Format. Adam's your man. (I'm all for it and it is the future of bike polo if you want to see bike polo on TV.)
Squads of players only really makes sense for longer games, you don't ever need to swap out a man for 15 minute game tournaments as polo is hardly an endurance sport (until the final few games).
It's very possible to have different team dynamics/formations without needing a fourth man. You've failed to provide a good reason to tweak 3v3 in my opinion.
The sub rule is written as-is to prevent sand bagging and teams "helping" each other during tournaments. It's also written that way so that a team's ability changes as little as possible during a tournament (having 4 players would also screw the ability to compare teams accurately).