Honestly guys all this hate about rank removal... seems strange to me cause it wont' impact on any mechanics and it is just a free gift to the ones that doesn't pvp so much.
It's just a vanity and you had the "exclusive" on it for more thant 3 month, you will enven get the super-exclusive gear with diamond rank for the one that really like to play a lot of pvp and has a good output...

I hated a lot more the 2.1 and so on when people just trading victories to get high rank or sometimes you had to face random people in pvp that wasn't interested at all on the match result :/