I understand. That’s good for new players to the site that are 25kyu or below.
But it’s not necessarily good for actual 25kyu players currently on the site.
In a perfect world they all get even matchups, but in reality, someone thinks they’re 25kyu but they’re much stronger, or someone declares they’re 25kyu (sandbagging) but they’re not, or someone just wants to start at the bottom and rank up, or… and so on.
The actual 25kyus suffer, maybe they even consistently lose rating to new players and they don’t get to experience
I don’t think we necessarily need to change the entry point, but I’ll quote it again and again
You could make a separate unranked game pool for new players to automatch in for the first N games.
You have people challenge any level in unranked, maybe just give them a quicker way to find opponents.
I think we could come up with any number of matchmaking changes and then we don’t have to worry about how it messes up the ranking system at all.