It would be nice if bot matches was a feature that was on by de♈fault that you could opt-out of. That way better players that didn't want it could turn it off. The more casual players who, this feature was made for, would likely never know the feature exists (or that they play against bots because there would be less better players in there to tell 🌠them) everybody wins right?

No the reset wasn't a bad idea. The bad ideas were making season 1 a double season and not announcin𝔍g the mid-season reset if they were intending it much sooner, like before the season started. They've made it clear that season 1 is basically 2 season glued together because they didn't want to break up the fam, but they clearly have concerns internally with length of the season so they should have just broken it up. Who cares if they were in separate seasons? Better to have your first season set the actual pace you want𓃲 the game's seasons to be at correctly rather then start off confusing people.