The official Matchmaking blog post

I have no real idea why people still play this game. People are legit addicted like a hard drug, but it's not clear even why anymore. Numbers were dropping hard, but now you get all these muppets saying BEST SEASON EVER GUYS. It's just the drugs talking. For every ten minutes I have fun in this game, I count 1-2 hours of just running around looting mindlessly and watching teammates make the most stupid decisions ever.

Every major change they have made has made it impossible to solo player. Having ropes for everyone just made the game way too easy for stacks to decimate the entire server. Valk was a mistake, and they doubled down on it and made everyone Valk. Just ridiculous. That along with ring changes and the overall matchmaking is just unbearable. I play events and nothing more. This game is legit just a very poor, laggy shooter at this point.

The lag in this game is LOL at this point. The servers are worse than a true comp game from ten years ago.