The fun part of this game used to be playing matches against players of similar skill level, not wading through trolls, inexperienced players, and players who simply aren't interested in getting better.
I have no interest in getting to any specific rank level, just to where my team mates and opponents are closely matched, those are the games I miss. For power snowballing through less skilled opponents I can just go play bots.
I know it won't take long to get out of bronze, at 33 LP per win and somewhere around a 12 game win streak, undefeated with ashe and xin. But if it wasn't for the waste of placements I might already be in silver with those 10 matches going towards my rank.