Maybe the game's so toxic because Honor's no longer incentive.

It's that simple. I have played and got an upwards of 247 Honors of various kinds, and only advanced to the first checkpoint. Other people have reported similar experiences with their Honor; If they hadn't been Honor 3+ the previous season, it's incredibly hard to advance for no good reason at all.

It wouldn't be so bad, but if I'm honest the loot boxes and keys as incentive is what had kept a lot of people previously non-toxic. You did what you thought people wanted (which they didn't; They memed about how easy it is to be in the top "0.99% of the playerbase" but in the end they never said they wanted it to be harder to earn Honor) and made it around 35x more difficult to earn Honor at all.