This whole trophy for everyone complaint is so overrated. I played various sports year round, organized, when I was a kid, and now tat I'm a parent of kids who play sports, there is a ton more pressure and emphasis on it than when I was a kid.
Anything that lets kids enjoy playing sports today, I'm in favor of.
Because the parents have sure screwed it up for the kids with all this pressure.
And, to answer Pagano specifically here, almost all the major technologoical advances of society in the last few decades have been collaborative efforts. There has been no "winner" there. We only have "winners" in sports, unless of course Roger Goodell is involved, and then we have controversies.