They're a wild card team. Why should they be rewarded. What achievement is being downgraded? If you remember fifteen years ago there was no wild card
You can have the 2nd best record in all of baseball and still be the 1st wild card. While that situation had always somewhat unfair in that such a wild card never had home field advantage and had to play the best team (unless they were in the same division), at least that team had a 5 game series in which you can shrug off one bad game. It's true that the 2nd best team in baseball could have missed the playoffs entirely if they didn't win their division before they added the wild card, but that's why the original wild card was actually a good idea, if not necessarily implemented as well as it could have been.