Might be a necro, but yeah, well explained. I get that high ranked players want to show it off, but basically, for any rank lower than diamond, a high level border was truly a burden. Having a golden border in a low to average rank myself, I am so glad they’re not clearly visible anymore. I actually didn’t play on this account for a long time just because of that - as mentioned above, having that border level up was a form of stress for me.
For what it’s worth, looking at someone’s profile displays their legacy border, the level they’ve had when OW1 shut down. It’s even visible when you put profiles to private (which I personally don’t like, I would have liked that to be optional). So while it’s a lot harder to spot, it’s not entirely gone.