It's pitiful to see >1900 rated users getting banned for cheating

Ratings are just a number; what matters is what got you there

The experience, the problem solving skills, the discipline, and the cognitive growth you gained through training are real, regardless of whether the leaderboard is trustworthy

AI-assisted cheating might inflate someone’s rating or win them prizes but it cannot give them the underlying ability that the rating is supposed to represent

If people think cheating is a shortcut to genuine achievement, they are only fooling themselves

The real loss is not an unreliable rating but losing sight of why we compete and learn in the first place