I'm just a concerned third party on this matter but I think it would be best to remember that mods are people just like you. I get mad at them too sometimes but at the end of the day all they can do is try to learn from past mistakes and keep moving forward. Any time a unique situation is introduced, one that they have no prior experience with, you could and should expect a mix up here or there. It's new territory.

But this thing about the Six paths, I remember when the monthly arena rewards were first released I read about the rewards and it did say clearly in there that your rank would be reset if you were a sage of six paths.

There are things I would like for some mods to do better but don't group in all mods together. Aside from that, put yourself in their shoes. Imagine someone critiquing your every action and every mistake. based on your post patterns I'd be willing to bet you would be deleting some posts yourself if given a chance. I'm not judging you for that. I'm just saying "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." It's something of a motto of mine these days.

Look, not trying to play devils advocate here, but maybe he just misspoke. Like I said it was a mistake. I think it's important to stand up and fight when need be. But the key to that is choosing the right things to stand up about.

Respectfully, I do not think this is that thing. It's also possible he had every intention to keep his word about that and talk to the Devs on our behalf to cut us some slack over the Arena awards not working in the first place. But if the Devs didn't listen to him or rejected the idea he is left to hold all the blame. Just reading the situation from the outside that is the most likely scenario. So, there is a very real chance your are being mad at him for trying to help you.

There could be a lot of reasons of course, but I have my money on that one.