Taggerung11 not gonna lie first impression of your message is contradicting. First you say you are casual and play once week -> then you reference ranked game (kinda not the place for casuals if you ask me) and Plat level (which again is at least intermediate rank in terms of Apex)...
If you casually can make to Plat, be happy, that is not what 50% can do in this game. Should you face Preds...sure not, but that's where our view and Respawn view clash for past 5? seasons since they started this bs where Preds feed on much lower enemies to post 20+ kill games IN RANKED ON REGULAR BASIS. Aka Pred nr.1 used to be world record achievement if player reached 100k RP, now it is basically a norm, people regularly passing even 150k mark.
Also if you are legit Plat level player, not sure you should complain about pubs. Yes there are many better players that grind it "for fun", but still most of the time especially if you duo / trio pubs it should be easy experience for you.
vVv_Bjoergen_vVv what do you mean "chill" :D this is COMPETITIVE FPS... it is all about COMPETITION. I mean you can go to bot lobbies and chill there? Why would you/many people require other worse players to have equally negative experience as you do for the sake of satisfying your "chilling"? Does not that sound a bit egoistic?
The point of any SBMM is that people with similar skills are matched together = games become actually super competitive and hard for EVERYONE if this is implemented correctly. Best examples would be long gone pickup games = modes where X number of players are in the pool, everyone sees their MMR and captains of teams pick one by one to form a team (used in good old Quake days).
Something non competitive / chill I guess is closer to Arc raiders mode where you play vs NPCs but somehow people like to "abuse" other people instead forgetting that other people also have emotions, feelings, ego, expectations.
People who want to have "fun" and "chill" should NOT come to competitive games as we can clearly see in case of Apex what happens if they do = Preds demand chill -> now we have situation where Pred 3stacks fright Gold/Plat soloq players and everyone (objectively) complains about it.
Chill = play single player / non competitive games where there are no winners or loser is NPC not a human. :) Or just man up and suck it up accepting the fact that in 20 team lobby you have a 5% chance of winning and each fight is 50/50.
