This thing with honor

I've heard about this thing with players bein able to play to eventually be able to get skins if you're performing good enough. My first thought was, why not make it about the honor system rather than push people to go harder soloque-mode and teamplaying and goin for good strats? It could be an excellent way to make people behave nicer and lower toxicity, but instead Riot makes it a way to push people to perform and thinking more about themselves? Feels kinda... Well... Stupid? :S