And most important: why "The ranking system doesn't matter at all"? It is absolutly incorrect.
I cannot agree with you. Existing rating system do not shows real player skills. Yesterday I was in about on 4000-m place on the ladders, after i won few matches, my position on ladders has become about 3000 - place. It means, that my skill has grow. But developers do not show me a number of my skill! My position on ladders do not say me about my skill, because I dont know, total number of places on ladders.
I think, that developers decided accept the rating system like in Battlefield and CoD. In that games player gains XP not for victory, but for participating in the match. It was a marketing move. But, as I said, very bad move, because CoH2 is not PR-produkt, like CoD, which created for the masses.
So, the level of the player should be decrease, when the player has lose the match. But such system was only in CoH.
And I surprised that some people do not understand this.