"wasnt our Kdr supposed to get closer to 1.0 at some point through matchmaking?"
No, sorry. I'm another day one player left behind by this game. And I can attest that matchmaking really is putting me in the lowest lobbies it has. The problem is that there are no casual players left in this game. I can play in the middle of the skill curve, as I did at the beginning of the season, and I can touch NO ONE. I finally got the game to put me in matches so far to the left of the curve that I'm practically falling off the screen. And guess what? It's the exact same untouchable players from the middle of the curve. Diamonds on secondaries. I have no other explanation. And it stands to reason that the population drain would be the players least protected from the secondaries and cheaters. Respawn, if you're looking for all your lost players, just go over to Fortnite or any other game that doesn't actively punish you for being less than the top 5%.
The matchmaking has been horrible for years. I consider myself a solidly average player. I had a KDR above 1.0 before they counted quitting to lobby as a death and a 0.80 after. My KDR the last two seasons has steadily dropped to about 0.65, but the skill distribution prior to matches consistenly has my lobby towards the top of the skill curve and my team in the top half of the lobby. Me and my randoms get decimated in record time repeatedly and nothing changes. How in the name of all that's good does that make any sense at all? This game is an an unsavable dumpster fire at this point.
That's been almost exactly my experience as well. I used to carefully curate a 10% win rate and a respectable k/d. Then the changes, including the quit=death that you mentioned, conspired to stop me from caring about any of that. It got to the point where I would join matches just to see how bad the matchmaking would actually be. Not to play. Not to engage. Not even to practice my "solo to second" map runs. Just to see what the matchmaker would do and whether or not I would get squadmates who hadn't given up yet. Strangely, they still almost never seem to give up. They don't know what to do, how to play, or apparently how stacked against them everything is. They just keep moving forward. I can't understand it.
Well, if that's not the confession of the most jaded player in the game then I can't imagine what else it might sound like. How I wish some other, better game would come along. I guess that's just too high of a bar.
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