Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

I like to consider myself an above average player, and I can say, if given decent enough teammates who can carry their own in solo queues, I can have a good game with 2k+ damage. I see a few diamond trails in my usual lobbies and they can put up a bit of a challenge,  but it's no big deal. I have fun. However, if I don't solo queue and just even play with people of my skill level, the lobbies get even sweatier. 

Now here's the real kicker, most of my friends who I enjoy, or rather I say, enjoyed playing this game with are far above my skill level (pred level, I should say), and that's fine. I wouldn't,  and they even wouldn't say they "carried" me. I used to be able to hold my own, catch up to their pace, and sometimes on occasion even pull off some clutch game savers. I am no longer able to do that. It's hard enough to even carry my own anymore, now that SBMM has been introduced. I find myself incapable of playing with my higher level friends because I can't even last more than five minutes in a game without getting absolutely pub stomped by a full premade squad of preds. It genuinely sucks, because my friends and I loved squaring up. Now I'm leaving them to 1v3 because I'm incapable of holding my own now.

Lobbies without SBMM weren't just EZ claps always either, which some if you are failing to realize. We would run into the occasional god squad or get into a bad third party and it would put up a challenge, but at least we all had a chance. 

Please, just fix the match making system so it's fair for everyone and not a constant sweat fest in public matches.