Why is there a kill cap in ranked

Technically a kill cap HURTS smurfs. I've use a smurf acct before to play with friends who hadn't made it to plat yet. The kill cap stopped me from leveling my smurf account too quickly and I was able to use it for a long time before reaching plat with it. 

Apex devs are the worse at listening to their community. We've told them plenty of times that people play Apex for frags, not placement. It's why EVERYONE pushes every fight they hear. But they don't care, they want Apex to be a survival game. A kill cap is just asinine in Apex.