I understand that interpretation of it. A lot of us stopped pvp’ing because of the reset, and being told it was being “wiped”. We all understood “wiped” to mean reset from scratch. To then announce a week before the pvp honor system stops calculating that you’ll retain your rank, and also “retain” your highest earned rank, it also reads as you will revert to your previously accomplished rank.
Maybe splitting hairs here - but more clarity on all of this initially, and giving people back their highest earned rank, considering they’re allowing retention of current rank, seems like it would be a reasonably fair thing to do in this situation. Not the end of the world, no, but some people deranked down to ranks 1-4 from 10+ in since May based on the original announcement.