New season 22 / terrible balance / more cheaters / more smurfs

I'll go long stretches with low level teammates and 3 stack/smurf/cheater enemies resulting in my team getting erased in record time over and over again.  Until that stops and I feel like my teammates and enemies are actual human beings, I won't believe a thing Respawn says about what they are supposedly doing to combat cheating and improve matchmaking.  It's nice that they said something, but actions speak louder than words at this point.

@HappyHourSumwur Yeah, the cheating issue is so bad, I've been seeing aimbotters as randoms on my team. I've been reporting them as I've see them, but they're still playing even months later. I just hope that the reports are doing something to help deal with the cheaters. We'll see, I suppose.

@EA_Mako
Please show us with actions and results, not words....
How many times have you said, “I'm ready to get serious about fighting cheats!” But in the end, the situation remained almost the same.
So please don't give me unnecessary expectations by saying big things in words until you see the results. ......

I understand that it's hard work to prevent cheaters, and the worst are those who are breaking the game and ruining it by engaging in the “criminal act” of cheating, but to be honest, EA/Respawn is also at fault for not being able to crack down on them properly.
The lack of proper policing creates a situation where cheaters are underestimated by criminals who use cheats and are allowed to use them with impunity.

We've seen enough of the “we're going to do something about cheats” and we've seen enough of the “we're going to do something about cheats” and yet we haven't seen any improvement.

So, before you go on a big rant, please show us the results first.
Words alone are not credible at all.

I want you to seriously recognize the fact that you have lost credibility to such an extent that you are now in a state of crisis.

For now, I will wait and see how things go without playing for a while, but if things don't improve, I will leave apex for good, and if things don't improve this time, apex itself will have no future.

@Asmodeus566

"Smurfs I see as a separate matter:
Is it a new alt account?
Is it Timmys or any other Pro/Streamers 500th rookie to Pred grind and this time just Akimbo weapons?
Is it some really good persons new gaming account because their original account got hacked and sold?
Is it just some cracked good new kid?
Is it I got banned for whatever reason but was good and had to make a new account?"

The only legitimate reason for a secondary that I can see on that list is, hacked, sold, starts new account. The rest of them are somewhere on the scumbag scale, and most are closer to the bottom than the top. I sympathize to some degree with an average player who has just grown tired of lop-sided matchmaking and is trying to do something about it, but the rest are a genuine pox. Streamers doing their 100th rookie to pred are the mainspring behind the cheating in this game. The kids see it on YouTube and twitch but when they try it themselves it's like running face first into a brick wall. So they look for ways to "fix" the wall so it isn't as hard or maybe not even there at all. I'm not trying to excuse the cheating, but the two are connected. If you advertise alcohol in prime time then the rate of teenage DWIs goes up. It's that simple.

I expected the number will be bad, but this is really bad. 100k banned monthly, with like... 200k players monthly on average just on Steam Charts? Wow And I was saying cheaters are 30% of player base. I was so naive :D