At least the very attractive rewards are gone from ranked so it's not nearly as punishing to skip any more. During The Feast's run it had 13 mounts exclusive to top ranked players (5 different unique models, the rest recolors of those). I was never very good at it but it looked like I might be able to maintain a spot near the bottom of the 100 list if I had just kept grinding out a large number of matches, but I quit due to the toxic way people behaved and then the harassment outside of the matches in linkshells and external chat apps. Just wasn't fun and not good mentally to keep seeing the elite talking trash about the people they get matched with.