I get it, the idea is that you find guardians who are experienced and know what they are doing. Only issue there is, that isn't what a guardian rank is. No matter how skilled or otherwise you might be at the game there is no getting past guardian rank 6 as a free to play player.
Even if you buy the annual expansion, rank 7 still requires buying the dungeon key and the seasons. I for one am not prepared to spend +$60 to get into LFGs of people who don't understand why guardian ranks are pay to progress. I admit that the later guardian ranks are skill based but they require owning all the content in the game which is just so much money and excludes much of the player base based on money, not skill.
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Or: Guardian Ranks should be permanent up to lvl 10. Let 11 be the number that shows your commitment to the current season, the current raid and dungeon and put them in lower levels once the season is over. With Ranks beeing an option in the fireteam finder I get punished for not playing much last season (or this season, I don't know which number counts). With thousands of hours of playtime, plenty of raidclears and every dungeon s/f. And we all know that people will use this option. And I'm tired of guardian ranks, pure fomo-hamsterwheel with no purpose. If they'd be permanent... fine.