I thought I'd improved, but I guess I was wrong

@HappyHourSumwur 

Most of your problems are solved by just not jumping so hot.... Is it a fun solution? Perhaps not but it seems like you are very bothered by the RNG at hot drops. I dunno if you are a 1 KD player with or without including early leaves but it seems to me that you perhaps would have a better time if you jump a bit safer, perhaps with only one other squad. Then you get some action/practise right away without having to deal with that much loot rng

I've had very similar experience. I started in Season 5 and also had about a 0.5 k/d when I started. Little by little its grown to around 1.0 but I have a similar problem. Sometime it feels like I die to players much worse than me who do weird things, stupid things, or just get really lucky and I spectate them for a little and they have no gamesense at all. Then all the third parties make it tough as well. I'll be 1v3ing a team and a third party will show up way earlier than makes sense, I'll get focused because "Its a solo wraith ape them!" and then the team I was initially fighting wins because I got griefed by a third party that completely threw their timing out the window and got themselves and me punished for it. I think the issue is that people with no gamesense or actual skill at all have become extremely confident and griefing has become meta.