That's why.
Unfortunately I think the smurfing situation will only get worse as the game generally gets harder since the players get better as well.
The requirement of a phone number to make an account is not 100% smurf proof but it will lessen the number of smurfs for sure. It’s so easy to make another account in consoles.
Smurfing has excellent business side effect - Respawn can show their stakeholders that the game is growing in account number.
Just don't play ranked. I quit for this reason. It was ridiculous.
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