Why are old PvP season rewards still locked out?

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PVP to the core is essentially a competition. Where the line is drawn in PVP is what constitutes as a participation reward (i.e. items that you can obtain even without winning at all, basically all Wolfmark and Battle Pass items), a Challenge reward (win-based achievements) or a Trophy (Top 100 rewards).

Noone is batting an eye over casual PvPers getting cool stuff, I'm very cool with the idea - but I despise the idea of re-distributing Top 100 rewards where a significant amount of players were trying their best to be on the leaderboard, only to tell them "you had it earlier than others, isnt that good enough?" or "you still know you did great, so we good?", like as if we are going to be ok with such a cheap consolation.

False, ranking was working as if you reach the necessary rank you could never get unrank, I don't call that working hard