I would love to be proven wrong, but this new change to prestige for AQ and War being based on top 30 champs AND relics (and keep in mind 7* relics just released

) is pure corporate greed.
While the top-5 prestige cadence has spead up (Onslaught, DP, High Evolutionary) it has been manageable for modest spenders and even FTP (yes, seriously) to catch up and maintain their spots in top 500, 100, even top 20 AQ alliances. New top-5 prestige releases were relatively rare. Top 30, though? If it wasn’t already, expect 2 new top-30 champs every. Single. Month.
Don’t hide behind pretending this is a player-focused change to give players more “rank-up autonomy”. This is the opposite of that. This is pure, 100%, we want to sell A LOT more stuff, prepare to fall WAY behind if you don’t spend a whole lot more.
You aren’t listening. You are not making any of these updates with players in mind. Almost every update recently has been a silent nerf, including most updates in the dev diary. I’d say do better, but this has been mistake after nerf after mistake.