Whenever I wasnt playing, I wasnt getting those rewards, so I wouldn't mind.
Players coming back would either start from the bottom, or maybe the system could remember their last ranking before they passed the threshold of being inactive for x amount of time and they could either come back to that ranking, or start a bit below it.
Yeah that is true, but whenever a long time has passed, and the power creep continues, it makes it almost impossible to progress at all. At my current situation, I am guessing I need about a year or more of grinding to be able to compete with most of the teams in the 500 range.