I miss the days when the Ranked System actually punished players for being bad.

I'm legitimately seeing people climbing with negative (~40-49%) Win Rates.

I miss when, if you fucked up your Win Rate/MMR, the Ranked System basically told you "Here's 2 LP for winning. No climbing until you have a positive win rate."

Then you had to go through a Training Arc of sorts in Normal games so that your skill level actually matched your Rank so that you didn't mess up your MMR any further.

It feels pretty bad as a veteran player who essentially only does his placement games nowadays, to see people with thousands of games played at a negative win rate and a 1.5 KDA on all of their most-played champions. It really undermines the effort I put in back when I actually played a fair bit of Ranked. It also dissuades me from grinding a bunch of Ranked games because the player quality is so much worse than it used to be.