I absolutely vote Yes to this Proposal! Having league locks creates the ability to play within a Meta and is vital to the new player experience.
When I first joined Splinterlands I adopted a horizontal approach to buying cards. I bought as many level 1 cards as I could to give myself a well rounded novice deck. I enjoyed the game and then upgraded my cards to bronze. Later I upgraded to silver. Then the league locks were removed and upgrading to gold became pointless.
A word to the whales... If you want a market to sell your cards into, you need to have a large base of smaller account holders to make the cards valuable.
Try to think in terms of a new player and vote yes to this poll!