I uninstalled the game after 25 seasons

It's funny. The ttk is too low. And is a reason to uninstall the game. A good reason. But it's far from the only reason. There are a lot of problems I would have put higher up the list. But it doesn't really matter how we count back our change when what we've been sold is a steaming pile of "don't give a crap."

What I will say in the dev's defense is that at least this season they've made a real effort, the first I've ever seen from any dev of any game I've ever played, to keep the left side of the skill curve from becoming a sewer of wide-range matchmaking. The left side of the course is pretty tight, I assume in an effort to make entry into the game something other than completely impossible. The smurfs are still legion, but somehow they seem less odious than getting a match where the range spans from the bottom of the curve to the top. Those used to be common. Now they're rare. Little victories.