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Well, I've been alive longer than video games have existed, so I guess that allows me to weigh in.

The problem is what you call a "constraint" is simply the point to progressional games. All progressional games reward progress. Progress is what earns you advancement in the game. If things didn't exist that were "constrained" by your progression, progression would be pointless. And these things have to be things people wished they could get without progress because if they weren't, there would be no incentive to progress in the game.

Most video games have this structure in some form. You need to do this to get that. You cannot do this until you first do that. This reward is only open to those capable of accomplishing this thing. Even many coin-op video games had this sort of thing in some form, but progressional games specifically focus on it. No matter how much people complain about it, no matter how much people decry the effort required, this is never going to be changed because the game is specifically intended to work that way. The game is targeted at the people who want that sort of experience. If you feel the effort required to progress is too high but you do not want to be excluded from the perks given to players who accomplish those things, this kind of game is not for you.

Sometimes the benefit of gaining more progress in the game is things get cheaper. Sometimes the benefit of gaining more progress in the game is things become available at all. These rewards must exist and they must be non-trivial for that progression to be meaningful. To put it another way, when people say they want what Valiant players get when they aren't Valiant yet, that's working as intended.

As an aside, the official forums are intended for players to discuss the game with each other. Every post on it is a post all other players are free to reply to, comment on, support, or disagree with. Many people post here telling everyone else that their post is targeted at Kabam or Kabam employees, and only Kabam employees. However, that's strictly speaking not something any poster has the right to dictate. That includes the Suggestions subforum.