u/Adorable-Roll-761

By inflating the LP and rank of players so much to the point that everyone who was Diamond 4ish+ (when D5 was still a thing) in S4-S8 to Masters, people are now forced to maintain their rank according to "Apex" rules- meaning, they have to grind more games and spend more time playing this game in order to avoid demotion. Master is now the top 1% percentile- back in S9-S10- it used to be the 0.1%. A new generation of players have been brainwashed into thinking they're actually improving and grinding when all they are doing is just getting the purple rank while still playing the same players they played ago in low/mid diamond ranks, but now with stricter conditions (such as demotion clocks and having to bank games before demotion). Welcome to the brainwash.