I know some games that award players for their performance across the whole season at the end of the season. Like number of games played and games won or something along those lines. I'm just thinking, if you want anything worth while, you'll literally have to plan ahead all the way to DECEMBER and find time to play ranked towards the end of the season in order to get to Plat +. I could play (And win) consistently throughout the year / season, reach Plat or above but if something comes up in my life right at the end of that period (Because it's certainly not uncommon for these things to happen, especially with players that are adults, not just high school gamer teens) and I have to ease off a bit, I might just slip down to Gold and basically have wasted an entire 7 months of sticking around. I'd feel A LOT more comfortable and encouraged to play ranked if I knew there was no discrepancy that my time would be wasted and that I'd have a
some sort of additional reward based upon my commitment to the game during the season.

I highly doubt anything will be done about this now, as I suspect it's far too late.