Tier protection cards

I think I know why they added Tier Protection. I can’t prove this at all but it’s just my own little tinfoil hat theory. They introduced it (for verge anyway) because these guys 1000% know just how absurdly bad the cheating problem is with the bots so instead of fix it (like what a normal game dev team would do) they’d rather just introduce this instead so you’re not falling like a stone in rank cuz the game decides to match you with maxed out level bots for 20 matches in a row where your bots throw the match on purpose and the opposing bots cheat like a married stripper and just like that you have a 17 game losing streak (which happened to me last season which is why I said “f*ck this and did MM exclusively instead).