"Ranked is supposed to be competitive, supposed to be hard."
This is how you feel, but it doesn't help me understand why preset drops are harder than jump masters. I would have said that just the opposite is true. In my experience of last season I always felt like my preset drop was the developer trying to spoon feed people easier starts because the frustration of congested drops is too much for a lot of players who want to solo queue a ranked mode, and who want the match to be a series of 3v3 engagements instead of the more random (and honest) pile up engagements that are an inescapable feature of multi-team battle royale. To me it's not supposed to be a series of playoff scrums. It's supposed to be chaotic, as it has always been. And players, if they care too, are supposed to learn how to manage the chaos. And not always by trying to shoot their way through it. That's a skill set that preset drops completely removed from the game, imo. To the its detriment.
