Placements are the literal definition of anti-fun.

I finished SIlver last season, got Bronze 3 after placements, and I'm now struggling to win games. 60% of the time the games are out of my control and I'm sick of getting told those 60% of games where I have no play to make or no trade that can work in my favor are my fault. Grinding this game just to get back to where I was is no fun when I'm in a literal 9v1 struggle to win games, and nothing helps me get better or calm down. I'll ask and get nothing, I'll watch my games and get nothing, I'll watch streams and get nothing, nothing ever leads to consistent improvement. It's also very hard when I can't help but notice how much games are out of my control; I literally can't do anything when my ADC stands in front of a charging Volibear or in direct grab range of Blitzcrank. I can't tell my team to not fight after taking the mid inhibitor - I can only watch them die when their team respawns and wait until I see "The enemy team has slain Baron Nashor!" and get angry because I literally watch my influence in the game get lower and lower and it does nothing but tilt and trigger me. This soft reset crap does nothing but infuriate me and take a lot of the fun I had away when I will literally spend all year grinding the game just to get back to where I was, and it's because the first 2-3 months of the game are the literal definition of cancer and torture.

So thanks, Riot. Thanks for making sure for at least the first half of every year, I will not have fun playing Ranked and I'll have no chance to prove I'm good while everyone tells me I'm bad when I KNOW I'm better than Bronze. Thanks a lot.