Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

@JiboTV I don't know if you frequent this thread anymore and check replies, since the original post was made in December 2019, but here's experience. I'm a veteran gamer, and consider myself to be average to above average in most FPS games. I've been playing Apex since the week it has launched with some of my friends, and we all enjoy the game and have 800 hours of play per individual.I personally have about 4k kills on my account, and we all play almost everyday, with intermittent week long breaks . We don't have much of a skill gap between the four of us. None of us have gone above Plat 4, and I attribute that to SBMM recognizing that we're a full pre-made team, and finds other pre-made teams out there to match us. What's really disheartening for the team is seeing 3 stack predators  and masters all over our lobby.

I understand we're paying a price for being a pre-made team but it feels like the cost is too high for us to play together. I've stated multiple times that we would probably have more fun playing the game solo, because the matches are so sweaty and difficult to play as a pre-made. Even in casual play, we feel like we have to play our very best game, every match to make any head way in games.I feel your assumption of "punishment" for playing well is very much built into the game. It's a terrible feeling to have, knowing you just played a great game as a team, but knowing our next game we will be overmatched with multiple master/predator stacks. It's pretty disheartening to drop into these lobbies, seeing as we're constantly hunted down since we lack the gun play to fight back effectively in these lobbies.

I can understand seeing diamonds and some masters, but predators are just leaps and bounds outside of our league. Fighting diamonds and masters is hard enough for us, and its demoralizing just to constantly get smoked in these lobbies with multiple predators. We've smurfed a few times to have a change of pace, and that in itself is unfair to the lower skill players. I genuinely enjoy the game, but at some points I just want to uninstall it. My team is being punished for being mid-tier players.
I really like the sound of your solution to the SBMM problem, seeing as my team should still get challenging fights, SBMM feels like its all in 2 brackets; Gold and below, then Platinum and

everyone else.

I hope anything I said is helpful and can give insight. I can easily see this as me complaining, and it probably is, but if i don't complain, it will never change.
Too bad they can't expand on the idea on the SBMM of ranked. Maybe Keep Bronze/Silver players in a bracket of their own until theyre promoted to Gold. Maybe segment the matchmaking somehow to where Gold players won't see anything higher than a master or team of masters in the match; Platinum could see predators but not more than 3? I'm not sure I'm explaining my thoughts well in text form. I hope my feedback is helpful.