@c5bwq92o0x8lIt's a chicken & egg thing. Are the players crazy because of the game or is the game crazy because of the players? Personally I think it's a bit of both. As a solo player I can tell you that I'm often in the queue with a match goal that isn't really going to mesh with other players' match goals. Often times they want a hot drop and a 45 second match, which is something I never want. But even when I have competent teammates, I often don't know they're competent until long after I've dropped solo and gone about my own personal mini-game.
For me the problem is that I have only two ways to judge and form expectations of my teammates. First is by what they put on their banners. And that mostly tells you nothing of value. A guy can have a diamond badge and still be an aggressive hot dropper who isn't interested in the comings and goings of his squad. Especially in pubs. Second is by the locations they ping for an LZ. This tells me a lot and it's almost always bad. Hot drop. 45 seconds tops. Downed and spam pinging for a res without, apparently, the ability to look at a mini map and see that I'm 1500 meters away.
I guess this all a roundabout way of saying that the key to success, imo, is the mic. Not saying I use mine often. I don't. But those matches where I do have a 95% chance of being something more than a solo run to second place.
