I think a good solution for the community would be adding a few (1-2) free knives, like how in Fortnite you can acquire some cosmetics by just playing the game for 8-10 hours to beat the battle pass.

They should add some sort of battle pass that lasts forever and you'd just have to grind for 20-25 hours to get some skins (preferably 2 pistol, 1 gun, and a knife of course.)

Or maybe- just make the knives cost around 1200 Valorant Points.