Here is what imo people get a bit wrong:
- and most importantly - comparing current system to something from the past.
Apex has changed so much from having 3000 or what was it Preds to 500? per gaming hardware type
Free to take rat master/pred seasons to seasons where only 0.3% of player base got Masters and 0.05% Pred
Deranking and hardstuck stystem...
Apex is about making changes in meta, weapons and ranked = you should not play as before nor compare your rank. If you compare, probably should in relative terms e.g. if previously in Diamond level there were 18% of player base and now with new system Plat contains 25% => see where you rank in Plat, if on top levels then probably you can assume that current Plat = old Diamonds + old high Plats = you remained / improved / slid down the ranks
Like now I am P1 and last time I played I guess I was D2, do I bother about the fact "not reaching Diamond" -> no. Plat lobbies are harder than ever, ok this time it is thanks to hackers being present in every game for most part, yet overall when there was legit hard Plat lobby I am fine with that, I grind ranked, my current level is Plat, let's go, there is nothing else I need. - in its basis Apex should be placement based game which this community never will get / accept I guess => how much you tune RP for kills really does not matter as most who play Apex "wrong" will still not get them, basically they will lose less on average than now and ones that play correctly will accordingly gain more by doing the same.
Only major difference is for smurfs, hackers, account boosters who will get to their desired results faster imo.
Ranked grind should be about reaching your level lobbies and then grinding your craft/skill vs similarly skilled players not reaching X rank and quit / smurf or aim for X kills or X damage. Latter is more like TDM mentality / free for all / solo ego player mentality. Apex is BR 3v3 after all and time and time again proves that 3v3 should be 3v3 not 1v3 1v3 1v3 or any other odd combination that appears daily in Apex fights.