Reasoning for Ascendant rank?

Just curious on why they added it and how it helps the game if at all

so you are even further away from immortal

because there was a big difference in low immortals and high immortals . All the D3's were getting into immortal and there was a big skill gap.

"We believe our lower ranks have a few too many of you, especially Bronze and Silver. When we were looking at rank distribution, we realized that if we were to move some of you up and out of those lower ranks, it would overpopulate Platinum and Diamond. So by adding a new rank we can better distribute you across ranks, keep the prestige of high ranks, while helping better define the skill level of each rank."

The skill gap

Thank you everyone very helpful just was curious have a great day