We lost the most enjoyable part of ranked this season
Regardless of how you do in placements, you always end up having pretty nice LP gains and minimal LP losses after matches, which was super enjoyable. This season I went 8-2 in placements, placing Gold 4. My first game was +26 LP, but every win after that has been around 16 LP per win, -19 per loss and I still have a 70+ percent win rate at 15-6.
I've been playing since season 3, this is different than previous seasons. I'm just really disappointed a lot of us don't get to have the fun of shooting up through ranks with godly LP gains.