First Carousel Issue

Something that's affecting me on the first carousel is that I have a bad PC and fail to load in. This is normally fine, as prior patch 9.16, the game would always automatically give me a two cost unit, as there are 9 units available for 8 players, and only one 1-cost unit.

However, this patch when I load in the game is more often than not automatically assigning the 1-cost unit to me. This feels really bad, as it limits options early game, and puts players that don't load in at a one gold disadvantage compared to every other player. It's really frustrating, as part of the reason I play TFT is that my PC's poor quality prevents me from competing in other video games such as league of legends, and TFT was one of the few games I felt I could compete equally, even if I didn't get to choose my starting piece and item.

If this is an intended change, I'd like to hear the reasoning, but I think it's a bug that's seriously impacting my enjoyment of the game and I hope someone can look into it, and make sure that AFK players receive the highest value unit on the opening carousel. Thank you.