If Bungie wants to have consequences for losing, it should be losing Points, not Rank. So if you are say Heroic 2 and you are 500 points into that Rank. Say you go on a losing streak. When you lose all your points, you should stay at Heroic 2 and not lose that spot but you lose all your points. Since the Minority doesn’t like SBMM/CBMM etc. and knowing Bungie listens to the Minority and not the Majority and it most likely won’t happen. So since people get Matchmade by similar Points/Rank. Then it would make sense to make Ranks locked once you achieve said Rank but still lose points. That way it keeps Competitive, Competitive. Cause all de-ranking is doing is bringing back the nightmare that was Halo 3’s Garbage Ranking System that lead to 2nd Accounts, lead people to de-rank so much, that the highly skilled players were able to pubstomp those who weren’t at that Rank yet and making the experience aggravating rather then fun. Nobody has fun being pubstomped by those who have their skills developed while people were trying to Developers theirs. People want to build their skills from the ground up, not be thrown into a match of highly skilled players. I personally think SBMM would achieve this goal of letting people build their skills from the ground up.