This matchmaking is making me lose friends!

@Srksii it's weird how true that is, you'd think a matchmaker would level the playing field for everybody and make every game feel challenging and unique. When I started during the first-ish week of Apex, no one knew what they were doing. Every game was challenging, learning the map, how the weapons feel, etc. etc. The people I got matched up against and with made for a pretty enjoyable experience. Me with two noobs vs. a 57 roster of newbies? Fun, exciting, even when I hit max level paired with level 10s. Me with max levels as a level 30? Fun, exciting, great games to learn new skills!

Now? Matched against a ton of Diamond and Predator players, but I'm getting level 10s to 40s. Trying to drag two uncoordinated no mic teammates against pre-made comm heavy teams is about as much fun as slicing my finger on a mandoline. I get matched with level 100+? They play about as well as the newbies I was matched with in week one, and I'm still vs. high coordination teams. Matched with a Diamond / Predator? 10% chance they're good, 90% chance they decide to drop in the same spot as 3 other teams, die instantly, and leave. In the time it took me to get 13 levels on my battle pass, I've had 4 actually great games, and only ONE of which where my teammate performed just as well as I did. I've had 1 Diamond player (AKA the ONLY teammate who did just as well as I did) and 2 Predators (One who was a whiny baby who yoinked loot, got upset that I called him out on it, died, then left. The other had a Predator trail but played like a Bronze totaling 300 damage after 4 encounters with full squads. My teammate and I both did over 1.5k damage), that's it. My very last game I got matched with a level 147 who couldn't figure out how to get up to my position in an area where the map quite literally hadn't changed for a season, and a level 130 who played about as well as a five year old. A whopping combined total for 1754 damage, with the level 147 with 1737, and the other guy with 17. Me? I had 17 kills, 2.9k damage. 

SBMM is the equivalent of being lost in an alligator infested swamp, weighed down by a ball and chain tied to each ankle, with none of the supplies you might need to survive in said swamp. All while drones hover about you recording your overall experience. Instead of getting help, they just kind of watch you drown, and when you finally do, they pull you up, zap you back to life, ask how well you'd rate your experience of drowning, then let you do it all over again.