We all know they are close to useless and the devs are making sure that p2w to remain spending. 

This game lacks game modes and the only game mode that has rewards give such a miniscule reward that it's barely helping you progress. 

The mini events are not helping also. They're just giving you less than 1% resources of what you need and it's going to take a month or 2 before they can be at significant use.

Being 6k+ SP is also dumb and it's hard to find people when you wanna play squad vs squad in tourney. 

The rewards are so weak that you can barely see people fight over it. You could give at least 2-4k reward to top1 but decide to make worth less. 

That's how you create a bunch of sp dropping players to farm the rewards by not putting as much effort because it ain't worth the effort. 

The less players grinding for top1, the less players the SP droppers see and the easier to get the top rewards.