Is SBMM harder this season or is it just me?

Yea, the SBMM has a big issue. Big reason, why I left Fortnite, when I still played it. It never goes down. You can not play for a year, your skill will be the same. I haven't played for a couple days and I instantly get matched against really beast players, so I gotta grind so much just to get my mojo back. Ranked for some reason is easier than PUBs in lower tier, even in gold it is easier than PUBs, which is my skill level. How is it logical, that in Ranked I get matched more fairly than in PUBs. I get that in PUBs you get random players, but the majority I get are beamers and crackhead diamonds, masters and preds. Why can't the game lower my opponents skill, if I don't play for a while? I actually want to get back to a game, if I have left it for a while, but with these BRs it just isn't the case. Luckily this game has gotten enough popularity, where it can't really crash anymore, but new players are probs on a decline.