[2023] Now I understand the real reason Riot added Emerald

They decided to add emerald, not to fix distribution, but to make people stick playing. The amount of people feeling happy because they "FINALLY" hit gold/plat after being "STUCK FOR YEARS" is scary to me. I don't want to sh*t on those people, I do not care about people's rank generally speaking. Also because people have a complete misconception of ranked, where all they think is "How do I climb", "What champ is the best to climb", and other sh*tty reasoning instead of learning and improving. Ranks are seen as something to achieve at all costs, using every tool. That's toxic and leads to elo inflation. Because of that Riot decided to give a big dopamine boost to people who were stacked for ages and made them feel better about themselves. Just to let them stack again, but this time it will be plat/emerald.