Sure. There are players that refuse to play agains folks that don’t have an established rank. This makes it more difficult to find games when you’re an experienced player that just created an account.
Case in point: people just started a thread about this today. 
an intermediate/advanced player can just hit up a bot to fix their rank if they see the rank is off, since they’re savvy enough to understand ranks
Not really. Knowing your approximate rank and knowing that you can leverage a bot to rank up are two different things. You are familiar with the system, but that wouldn’t occur to me naturally unless someone pointed it out to me.
Sure, we all have different motivations. My goal is to improve the experience for beginners. I think intermediate/advanced players can sort themselves out as long as the ratings system adjusts for them.
I don’t believe delving into the intricacies of my past bad experiences helps further the discussion much.
Rather, could you expand on why you don’t want to put the ranks at least for the Intermediate / Advanced? I don’t see how that makes the system more user-friendly for Intermediate / Advanced players.