Do you remember when Apex used to be fun?

I guess it's time for one of my seasonal rants about this game...

Yeah, game was fun before. It stopped being fun looong time ago. But I keep saying the same thing. Each season is worse than the previous one. And I every time I say this I know I'll be saying the same thing the next season. But I still hope I wont have to say it. BUT HERE I AM, YET AGAIN

Like, where do I even start

What is your matchmaking? Actually. How does it get worse. I get in some massive turbosweat lobbies. Why? I'm not even close to a predator or a master rank. WHY DO I KEEP GETTING PREDATOR LOBBIES? 
I'm all for competition and learning from my mistakes. But constantly getting stomped by these people who literally have nothing else to do than to play this game 25/7 or have it as their job is not fun. It's not healthy for the game. 
Where is that SBMM everyone talks about?
Also, smurfs. You added a report reason for smurfing. But there are more smurfs than ever before
By the way, does the report function even do anything? It seems like it's not

Game has HORRIBLE hit notification. On my screen I just get one shot by spitfires, or so it seems. But when I see the damage long, they apparently hit me 7 times. And that ties in to the previous problem. When you are in sweat lobbies, everyone just beams, constantly. The hit notification is so bad I can't even react. I press the button to aim and I can't even aim in time before I'm already on the ground, from full purple shields and HP. Fix your hit notifications for crying out loud!
Related to that is this as well. When I shoot at people, I can absolutely laser them, but it doesn't do enough damage. Like my bullets are disappearing into the void. I shoot two full extended blue mags into Gibby who has blue shield, he doesn't go down. Or, I just had a game where I was fighting someone with EVA8. They had white shields. I shot them 7 times and they did not die. When I checked the damage log, I did 86 damage in 3 hits, and 85 in 4 hits. That's 171 in total. So how doesn't someone who has white shields, totalling them at 150 HP, go down? 
How are things like this even possible????

Also, there's a ton of hackers. Still... Though with the lobbies I'm getting, it's difficult to tell

The Bocek Bow
Just... no
It's a bow! Why is it nearly a hitscan weapon??? It has faster projectile travel speed than Sniper rifles. But it also hits harder. And it can be spammed. And it can also be turned into a shotgun, though why would you because HIPFIRE IS PERFECT, NO SPREAD
Oh also, it's silent... 
So you know all those third parties that we all know and love. Constant third parties where you can't even have a one single squad v squad fight. Yeah. Now they are silent, so you don't even know you are getting third partied. You just get an arrow in your back for 70 damage because why not.
First game I picked up the bow I was sniping people left and right. And after that I haven't used it once because I actually feel disgusting using it. Never have I felt anything like this about using any other gun in Apex

Servers
Old news I guess
You thoughts season 8 was bad? Well you'll have fun in Season "Legacy"

Yeah. Legacy for nonsense and bad game and balance decision. Y'all really stepped up the game on that one for sure

Oh yeah, Arenas
Cool concept. Definitely loving the change of pace. Definitely needs tweaks and spawn adjustments, so you don't get sniped while you're still in your own spawn.
Also, economy needs to be changed drastically. It's dumb that you can kit out a gun in the first round. Not fully, but still. Makes it feel like there is no flow to the game. First round should be pistols and shotguns only. Maybe one cheap SMG that you can buy, but not level up
And please add Ranked arenas in the future. I understand this is only hte beginning, you're testing the grounds. But the mode needs ranked already. Apex is already extremely sweaty. Arenas are even more competitive. It's the prime mode that would need ranked  and I really hope we'll see that in the future

Overall, I am really not happy. I'm actually very disappointed. But I'll partially blame the hype. You overhyped this so much, even going "It's not season 9, it's season Legacy" making it sound like it would be something absolutely epic, and then... we get this
Don't know what I expected tbh
I knew the game would have issues and a lot of balancing nonsense but I'm still so disappointed
And reading through the forums, I'm not the only one