Yeah, it was difficult to adjust to the removal of leagues.
I had a "Gold" Chaos deck to fight in Gold league before the change, and I couldn't do anything with it when the change happened.
I'm renting max-level cards now to be competitive in modern. The rewards breakeven on a good day haha.
Still thinking about how I should navigate this new landscape Splinterlands has created for human players who mainly want to play the game.