Valve employee u/jeffhill even said himself that “Account Level is a poor metric of how old is the account”, and that’s why they added Total Games Counter to profiles. Why would they remove it?
Remember when they said “Smurfs are not welcome in Dota 2?” and after an initial banwave nothing happened?
I wish Valve would stay consistent on their promises and stop doing “one-time things” that don’t last more than a month.
The other thing, is if I see really low game number, I know to not necessarily report for griefing either. Very infrequently, bad play and griefing are hard to tell apart, for a very new player that communicates zero.