@Tad844 I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of truth to this lmao!! That is one of the biggest reasons I don't really like watching streamers. When I'm watching, they usually seem like they are in lobbies that are populated by ACTUAL potatoes. My lobbies tend to be people that seem to be way above my skill level, with the wall jumps and bunny hops and all that fancy pants stuff. Heck, I've always been baffled at the accuracy of streamers hip-fire, compared to when I use the same weapons. Seeing someone 360 off a jump tower to hit a no-scope with the Kraber from 50+ meters, makes me question things.
The only time I've really seen streamers/pros going against similar-skilled opponents, is in tourneys or when they do scrims with other pros. I'm not saying there's anything to it, I'm just saying that's why I don't really watch streams. It could very well just be the fact that, the percentage of the Apex player pool that is of that skill level is so small, that is why they aren't really challenged outside of tourneys/scrims.
At the end of the day though, I'm not worried about it. I play the game for fun, and have plenty of other games to play when Apex gets frustrating.