I see lots of people with like less then 10 wins in silver, why not put LP depletion in all ranks? Sometimes they log back on to play one rank game and just lose because they don t play enough, why give them all the rank advantages if they don t even play rank? Besides LP depletion on all ranks would probably help counter some smurf accounts.
If you're forced to play ranked, as a casual player, to maintain your rank, you'll eventually just give up trying to maintain your rank and quit to another game
It's also there so Riot maintains a high elo playerbase so that queue times aren't really long, with the added bonus of people not going on a win streak and leaving their account like "I got to where I wanted, now I don't have to play so much"
It would just lead to countless complaints.
A lot of people just get to gold for the victorious skin, then stop because ranked isn't that interesting to them.
Then it turns from "fun" to a tedious assignment. Gotta find a balance in ranked for both casual and competitive people. Of course there's the argument of "just play normals", but people want the rewards so yeah...
