>>528540059
Its actually pretty smartly designed.
F2P are the ones who need the reward most so they'll be the ones mass playing it for said rewards.

Which means the F2P that actually HAVE been playing ranked and stomaching the pain of having to fight nonstop whales will now allow them to have a break rom the torture and face off against people in their budget range massively improving their quality of life.

There are F2P people who WANT to engage with the game and rank up, this gives them that.