Because you know, we’re tired to face gm and t500 in qp, isn’t fun, isn’t winnable. is only a oneside win experience.
My guess, they do a soft reset for the bottom 90% where placements count for a lot more, and maybe hard reset everything above 3500SR equivalent MMR, back down to 3500SR equivalent MMR.
Since MMR resets is mostly a Masters/GM ELO issue.
Surely it’s because of the few people in the beta, but I’ve mostly been plat and I got placed in a game with Dafran and Kabaji