For an active player it srsly isnt a problem to reach lvl 54 ...
To gain points effectively, you need to play ranked/ladder/coin games with boring, repetitive templates, so yeah, an active player can reach lvl54, but to do that, he must waste a lot of time. I already had to play for 1,5 months to unlock bonus overwriting, after that I planned to simulate some historical/alternative wars in single-player, particularly alt-historical WW2 scenarios on the eastern front, and now I have to search for another good europe map to do that. I'm sure there are other people who registered here just to play single-player custom scenarios or multi-player diplos, and these idiotic level reqs make it harder for such people to enjoy this game. It's ok if a map has req of up to lvl40, but everything above lvl40 is stupid.