APEX LEGENDS, A [Edit - Admin.] GAME.

There are a lot of issues indeed but we have to admit that it still is the beginning and they can provide us with a wonderful experience. I bet the issue is the big success they had at the beginning which was beyond their expectations and therefore I don't think they had enough people in the team to maintain that and even that there team is growing (assumption) I still don't think they actually grew enough yet and all they need is time.
Now about statements and explanations they actually give a statement addressing all the major issues and then released a cheater related update and now they gave an other statement you could say about what we are to expect in the next update that I think is to be by the weekend.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Game-Updates/Respawn-Check-In/td-p/7866873/jump-to/first-unread-message

LOLZ I smiled at the title 'apex legends a [edit - admin.] game' XD

So to the first situation at hand, dunno if you play on console or pc but if you're on console, when you at main menu, don't go into the game right away. Wait for 2 minutes, press start to go to the 'accessibility menu' and you'll see the option to change your data centre (hence picking a server with the lowest ping to give you a better experience). For pc it's the same thing but you only need to wait a minute untill the option is present.

The second point has been talked to death so yea they're well informed and hopefully they'll do something about it sooner rather than later.

They 'announced' that June the 7th they'll talk season 2 battle pass (E3 baby!)

@Avenger0314 I concur. I also think it's dus to that. It's alot more manageable supplying the service to like a million than the millions... and MILLIONS of fans (who knows what I was going for there 😏) on their servers. With the added amount of stress on the servers and the team they need time & resources to cope. They already added a (senior) network engineer to help out and I don't think that will be the last addition to the team. So for now I'll just wait towards the future, but I do understand the frustration.