Well, this degenerated into food fight way faster than I would have thought.
OP, here's the deal. When you were playing a few seasons ago this game had a cheating problem. When you came back this season there was no problem at all... until you brought it with you. You see, there can only be a "cheating problem" if there are still some players in the game who are not cheating. I guess that would pretty much be just you at this point.
When this game started out the one-clip threshold was pretty high. You didn't really run into those people until you were pretty well along in a rank grind. Now the one-clip threshold is somewhere in mid-bronze. So the game doesn't really mean to be pitting you against these players... there just isn't anybody else left.
To say it as plainly as I can: your own skill is irrelevant if you choose to play a game that is run, lock stock & barrel, by cheaters.
I would say that it's time to move on to some other game, but if there's one out there that has any less of a cheat problem than Apex then I haven't seen it.