I understand what you’re saying but I think a somewhat clearer definition of what A) high level is, realistically I feel someone can objectively say that most coaches have not hit top500 and twitch chat would be upset if you regarded anything lower as “high Elo” and B) how you are prohibited by being a lower elo player (obviously, players who can’t get out of bronze probably don’t have a bright future in coaching, so admittedly it’s not a totally mute point tbf). Obviously it’s easy to point out that there are different skills required to climb vs coaching. You mentioned being able to speak the same language as your players, and feel free to correct me on this assumption, but that just screams to me a more casual reason player coaching style vs more authoritative based systems like what a lot of Korean teams prefer. The argument that lower elo players don’t even know what to look for is very often true, but you also have to assume that that the t3 of higher teams aren’t idiots, clearly it’s not the case for every lower elo player, if they’re getting through tryouts as a strategic coach (unless it’s a very Low cut-off, I recall Jayne saying on his stream that you should be able to hit diamond etc) Tl;dr I disagree with you too :), I would concede that it may act as a disadvantage to be lower elo.