No. It just encourages that the person who works at it the most gets the highest rank. YOU decided, 100% on your own, that rank 14 is worth the insane amount of playtime that it takes to outplay the other people who have the time to do nothing but play WoW for weeks.
Your stacking exists because you don’t want to have to play more than him, you want him to disappear from your competition.
If someone can dedicate more time, they’re going to get better rewards. If that’s a bad system for you, then MMORPGs are the wrong games for you to be playing.