I don't think theres A LOT of new players. Especially if u go to normal games its mostly smurfs leveling up their new accounts, but yea for sure there are some new players, especially due to Arcane. And to be honest, the League of Legends community was allways the same... Toxic as fuck (in my case even in unranked people been toxic just as if they played for 999999$) :D You just go /mute all and then play your own game and try to carry/have fun :D

And yea its a lot easier to unlock new champions, even some free skins, new icons and a lot faster to get to lvl 30.

Anyway have fun in league man! I think the longer u play this game the less fun and more tilt u will have, so enjoy while u can haha :D