Seasons wasn’t relaxed, not in Div 1 anyway!
It’s much better now though, Rivals is good as long as the matchmaking system works properly and it seems to at the moment.
I'm in Div 5, after starting in Div 6 with 2 W, 1 D, 1 L, but got to Rank I pretty easily, think I ended up on 35k yesterday evening well above the cut off for Rank I. But the points you get for Division rank are tiny so progressing through the Divisions will take an age.
In 18 I was regularly Div 1 / 2 and after this past week and maintaining Rank I easily I think I have the skill level in the current game to play in a higher dvision. But I doubt I'd be able to keep up playing the amount of games I've played the past week to maintain a Rank I, so technically I'll be get lesser rewards just because I'm playing less games, rather than rewarding on what my skill might warrant. If it was easier to progress to a higher division then playing less games probably wouldn't be that much of an issue if that makes sense.
Assume Div 4 rank rewards are greater than Div 5 etc etc