well, honestly you already alluded to it in your post. we're in a generation of rage quitters and sore losers. if they leave early they lose nothing and gain a chance to try again with no consequences. but if they stay and lose and take the L, they get nothing but an L and maybe some useless rare boots
so for how it is currently, no it shouldn't cuz people like me who stick it out regardless and try to make comebacks and shyt walk away with nothing but their pride which was probably slightly bruised a bit after going 3 against 6 dudes taking turns landing their super on you til the match ends.
Bungie knows what year it is, and have implemented punishments for quitting in their games before. this week was a failure, lets be honest. my suggestion for the next time iron banner rolls around is obviously punish the quitters - what happens to the cats with the heart to fight til the end, doesn't really matter to me cuz I just wanted them end of the match rewards and didn't know about the rep thing (and believe me, I don't care) until I was lookin up what the rewards were on destinydb.com and put 2 and 2 together
and for the record, me and
@SobeSoles.com were going in most of the night. the matches we won were always Decisive Victory and the few that we lost were because these clowns on our team backed out with 8 fukking minutes left to go in the match.