I will add my opinion to the mix as well. As one of the people that went all out and fought for a top 12 place barely sleeping, rushing back from work (yes I wasn't send home, essential worker after all), living off of fastfood cause otherwise I'd loose any chance of earning the titles. I didn't earn them both. According to Yoshi P I didn't earn them because I wasn't dedicated enough. I am utterly dissappointed that's the wording he chooses to descripe me not being able to no-life this content. I put my own life at risk and all I get is "you weren't dedicated enough to get this time limited stuff that we said would be back every week/month".
If they were to keep the titles (like they initially said they would), make it a weekly/monthly competetion (like they said they would), everyone would have a chance at being the firmanents hero. But by changing the titles each patch and only having one competetion a patch, the team is basically saying that if you weren't self-isolating in phase 2, you couldn't get these titles. I found solace in the fact that when these leaderboards would reset after the first competetion I'd have another shot, cause well another try, but also the people that got the title/achievement in the first run would not need to the second run of the leaderboards.
Yes it's a competetion, but as a lot of people also mentions, PvP has the same titles every season, you don't get locked out of getting those titles because you don't participate in a specific season. I'm not a fan of time limited content in general. It just shows you were fortunate enough to be able to put in that dedication at that specific time. Everything (titles, achievements, mounts etc.) should be available to anyone at any given time in my opinion.
Another point I wanna share is that this is an MMO, to me that means you work together on a common goal, and this sort of competetion, I've never felt more like a solo player... ever. I was egoistic, not participating in any other events in the game that I'd usually stop what I was doing to join in on. This is NOT what I want in an MMORPG. I want to see a reason to play with other people in the content that I'm presented and a ranking leaderboard as it was implemented does not make me wanna work together with anyone.
Please reuse the titles for every single leaderboard ranking ever to exist and make the leaderboard ranking more frequent.