The official Matchmaking blog post

@Khronikos You can skip the looting with the ltm. Unfortunately it is only here for another week tho.

@HappyHourSumwur I understand you so much, I feel your pain as if it were my own. I've been playing since release, but I don't have good enough reflexes to quickly target the enemy and control recoil well. Previously, I could reach the gold rank in a ranked match, I always took this place for many seasons, in some seasons when the matchmaking became truly terrible, adding players to my squad who played much worse than me, but all opponent's players were as if they had just come from the final round of the tournament. Some seasons were silver, some were even bronze, when I lost hope. And despite this whole journey... the game continues to send me into matches where Predators, Masters and Diamonds are running among the enemies. Considering my depressing skill, every time I ask myself the question: “What have I done to deserve this suffering? Why does the game consider me worthy of playing against such terrible opponents who don’t even give me the slightest chance to develop, they just destroy me in a microsecond in every match.” I used to spend my time playing the game to get rid of depression, but now I feel like this game is dragging me further into the abyss of depression. I increasingly feel that in this game I was assigned the role of “Mob” so that various PRO players, streamers and cheaters could have fun at my expense. In the last two years, I don't remember ever being actually put into a fair, balanced match where my opponents and my allies were equal in skill to me.
And the terrible thing is that I still haven't found another game with similar gameplay as an alternative. And EA, along with Respawn, are well aware that there are no other alternatives for players to go to. Other BR games have a significantly different pace of play and the dynamics of the battles themselves are different, which is why Apex Legends is so loved by many who do not like the gameplay of PUBG/WZ/Fortnite. And realizing this, they are in no hurry to correct the bad situation with matchmaking and cheaters. This makes it even sadder... we have become hostages to the incompetence of other persons.