It took Imaqtpie nearly 4 months to get from honor level 1 to honor level 3
Apparently it takes you 4 months of playing almost 10 hours a day just to make it from honor level 1 to honor level 3. If Imaqtpie, a man who makes a living from this game and can afford to play 10 hours almost every day, takes 4 months to climb to honor level 3 from honor level 1 then I definitely think its wayyyy to hard to climb honor levels once you get to honor level 0 or 1. Also, Imaqtpie very rarely tilts. He has a very entertaining laid back approach to the game and this is how long it took him to get to honor level 3. How do you expect a normal player who got chat restricted because of a day where he was tilted and used chat too aggressively to ever climb back from honor levels 0 or 1.
This has been brought up in this board multiple times but this is the most undeniable proof I have seen yet. It definitely too difficult to climb honor levels once you get to honor levels below 2 and It doesn't seem fair that just because you got a single chat restriction you cant feasibly get back to honor level 2 in a reasonable time frame. Essentially if you get any sort of punishment throughout the year then you have no hope of getting end of year rewards.
EDIT: Since apparently any post attempting to start a discussion in this board is immediately raided by players that flood it with comments about how you just have to not be toxic and you will have no problem with the system; I will not reply to anybody else. This board should not exist if the system is so perfect that the only people who have a problem with it are toxic scum according to you guys. Why would anybody want to discuss a system that's already perfect? TIL that Riot is god and its policies are not to be questioned.