Ranked reset feels incredibly pointless and time wasting

Partially venting and partially wanting to know if anyone has a similar experience.

Finished GM3, reset to G1 and naturally every match I play has like 8+ ex-GM players (they have the crest).

Going basically 50-50 since these are just GM games in Gold and my gains are barely positive, like they were when I was GM.

It seems to me that there is no help from the system in regaining your rank, so until some lower rank players climb back to gold, and the eternity players climb out of plat, ill be mostly stagnant in my current rank.

At that point, why bother playing games now when I could just wait a week and have an easier time climbing.