Ladder Rank— How High Have YOU Gotten?

I've been wondering how many people actually get up to the higher ranks. Even if you had a perfect winning record, that's a lot of games to play. Of course, nobody has a perfect record, and the decks you play against are usually just as competitive as yours, so that's a lot of playtime in a month. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's 36 additional wins to get to the Ultra League (and rewards other than better opponents and bragging rights this month) if you had a perfect record, because of course that doesn't factor in setback from losses.

I'm guessing a lot of people are like me, who get in to the Great League each month for the rewards, then float around that level for the rest of the month.

In months where I haven't played as much, and I'm really trying to get into the Great League last minute it can be kind of stressful. I can have bad days that just set me back. It's really refreshing to switch back to casual and play fun decks instead of the best meta ones. I believe if I were to focus only on moving up the ladder I would get burnt out and quit this game fast. Being in the higher leagues doesn't even sound enjoyable if you don't have time to play a fun casual game.

Just one thing I think could be looked at, and the ladder re-scaled if a very small percentage of players are actually progressing far on it.

I only started playing ranked a while ago, so I think it's justified that I'm only in Pokeball rank.

Still at pokeball rank because I am scared about the consequences if I lose

I get to 600 points pretty quickly somehow, 1 minute I'm at 20 points, the next I'm at 600... But highest I got to was 780 points last ladder, I didn't play the full ladder, joined late.

Around 200 points, I see a lot of electric decks... Which aren't difficult when they require those Flaffy on the bench.

After 400 points, I play a lot of Roaring Moon and Gardevoir... Pretty easy to beat these days but I'm not going to lie, I did struggle with them when I first started playing them, no more though.

After 600 points, I literally only play Charizard EX decks, and they're trash anyway, if it wasn't for the energy ability, 2 move cost or move upscale, I'm sure Noone would use that deck. shrugs

Around 700 points, I see mainly Charizard EX, but I see the random Dialga V deck, but predominantly Charizard EX.

I see the odd Colorless deck, that Raindeer Pokémon... Mimikyu... Palkia... Electrode... Decks, but barely... When I can think of all the decks I play and see there's only like 10 or whatever, it makes me sad, especially as I don't use any of these and I can still get 700 points, and I'm a casual player.

For those of you who hit the higher ranks, are the decks better than these, more creative, more unpredictable, essentially more fun to play against? Constantly seeing these decks, I get bored and only play a few when I load up... Be interesting to see others opinions who get higher ranked.