as a player who just recently entered the champion-rank, i can understand where the collection-power-treshold is aiming at; there are just a lot of bot-accounts in the ranks of gold - diamond, but there issue here is not the bots, it is the fact that there are very little "real" players within that range compared to the number of bot-accounts.
instead of attracting more new players (which would resolve the problem to some extend), it is made more and more difficult for newer players to get some value out of the game just by playing it (undermining the whole primary selling point of the game while alienating your actual audience).

way to go @aggroed, justin could not have done a better job ruining the game!