What is up with pubs

Regardless of how many players like the new Storm Point or how smooth the servers seem (I've been experiencing a fair bit of rubberbanding) there is definitely a shortfall of players (in most of my lobbies anyway) where I play on London servers pretty much at peak hours (7PM - 10PM GMT) & pretty much 50-52 players seems the lobby maximum for me these days.The shortage of players I'd think would throw any match-making balance out the window just to fill games.Yesterday I was one of 6 players waiting in a lobby for at least 2-3 minutes in a Trios match no more players were added & it was  a solo match between 6 players.I won the match playing as Ash with 3 kills but it took nearly 10 minutes into the game before encountered my first enemy & yes it re-emphisised my thoughts that Apex could benefit from a solo mode & refresh the game away from the rigmarole that squad matches often bring with pred teams & useless,unresponsive teammates but on the other-hand it just seemed the game can be a bot of a mockery where in a 60 player match only 6 players were available.