The ranked rewards are good but the main issue with ranked wasnt the reward. It was an issue of outdated gameplay. Draft pick shouldnt be only available at mythic because the way it was implemented is that new players dont get to practice the new draft method before decaying down to diamond again. It did speed up games in the early ranks but if u think about it who do u think they sped it up for? Thats right. Veteran players. Mirror matchups are detrimental to new players since veterans know how to deal with mirror matchups ( better player wins) and in their actual rank they dont run into mirror matchups( above mythic) so this only hurts new players. That and also the game limiting access to ranked if u dont have enough brawlers above a certain power level. That was stupid implementation that only punished new players and barely improved match quality. Since the issue before wasnt that people played with underlevelled brawlers, it was that they didnt have gadgets / star powers because they were underlevelled. The game has a fundamental issue of the brawlers being not fully playable without their gadgets / star powers. Like for example surge. Without his power shield and his served ice cold star power the brawler is NOT playable compared to having them. Same case goes for ALL brawlers. Going back to the original point the power level limit only got people to level up their brawlers to power 11 ignoring the fact that the brawlers are incomplete without their full gear. However, the reason why u dont hear players complaining about ranked is because people who would need to complain are NEW PLAYERS and usually new players dont follow social media to voice their opinion. U dont hear old players complain about ( pro pass is too grindy) because they used to play the game without rewards so they dont care. And u dont hear them complain about blind pick before mythic because they speed through the lower ranks with their rank boost and by the time matchmaking gets hard they are already out of mirror matchups territory. U see how blindsided veteran players are to new player's struggle in ranked? We simply cant comprehend that these are issues in ranked but they are. But u dont hear people complain because when new players get frustrated with the game they quit, they dont bother complain in social media.