Yeah it would have been absolutely terrible to give those of us that have grinded daily for the past couple months something for our time, work and money (paid battle pass) lol.
I spent 20k of my 60k rip chips on more crap I didn't want last night out of sheer boredom and getting annoyed with my gathering chips lol. What are they even good for now? Ripscore is meaningless besides getting the 11k trophy, which in itself doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I assumed at least ripscore would come to mean something with the introduction of a battle pass but nope.
For a game ALL about grinding, there's not really anything to grind for and the grinding is tediously time-walled, and all items with a brand on them are now pay-walled. Not including a single branded item in a PAID pass, is crazy work imho.
Sorry getting off track here a bit, I'm just getting a bit frustrated by the now seemingly pretty pointless grind, and backpedalling on things like how you can use the currency you're grinding for, and that's without mentioning the constant nerfing of it all, and getting less and less as the weeks go on... This game flat out disrespects your time, and money tbh, at least currently. Man, I hope this improves, and soon.