Ensuring you'll always be doing 1v2s for the rest of the games life, which without these players will be short. Call it an investment in the future.
Eventually you wont be able to do 1v2s at all because there wont be 2 people stupid enough to play long enough to learn.
Without new blood into the scene, it'll eventually die. We have like what, 300 people playing competitive? Maybe 500 or so playing skirmish semi actively?
New game releases and we've lost 10.
Clan dies, 4 more.
Cant find the time to play? Another one gone.
New player joins, gets treated like ****,harassed, votekicked, left to fight 2 people everytime, not getting any help from veterans, decides to leave the game.
In order to learn a game like this, you have to be a sadist, we might aswell make it as painless as possible