They are the hurdle you have to overcome to get into the higher ranks. No victory or development should come easily. Your mech is trash and needs to be upgraded before it will do any better in the higher ranks (which, believe it or not, do NOT get any easier
I admit it wasn't this bad before, still not too bad at all
Easy wins, they get hundreds of them per player and thousands per clan for higher rewards. It's the easy way out for honorless scavengers like them to get tokens and items instead of bothering with ads, raids, and the like
I can assure you that is far far from being a hacker. You'll know soon enough what a hacker truly is (hopefully not).