its obvious platypus… this is what happens when we mix a reward that is just a cool looking cosmetic, but mechanically works like a medal of prestigee.
sure the glad mount does have its high status for how hard it is, but before the status what people see is what the glad mount is… a mount, a badass looking mount.
and what happens when people see a badass looking mount? “i want it”… and then becomes a situation of “but you are not ultra mega good at pvp, so you can’t have it”, “but i want it”, “oh but you can’t have it”.
its beautifull to say keep it as it is so the mount keep having its high prestigious value, until you are within a position where you don’t have it, and the certainty that you will never have it.
its foolish to say, oh but if they do work hard enough they surely manage to get there one day.
and to that i say no… many people try it, the best they can… and they fail miserably, for many years.
everyone can get it if they try their best, and stay there and work hard, and push until they can get it? thats not true at all.
if you want to preserve the spirit of playing pvp for the sake of pvp of being competitive in your blood, then the rewards should reflect that… cosmetic reward do not reflect that at all… a comestic is about looking pretty.