After a very disappointing first week of the season (due to piggybacking in ranked) I called it quits at Platinum 3.
Didn't play ranked again, or Apex at all for quite a while, but came back for the Soiree event and decided to climb to Diamond again for the legacy dive trails in the future. Took me 2 days with randoms, farmed very easy wins. It seems that dashboarding really upset the ranked ladder significantly, ranked felt like pubstomping with a predator/diamond premade.
Kinda regret not staying in Apex and at least trying to get Predator after finding out about the removal of permanent dive trails, especially since many many fake Diamond and Predator players would have made it much easier than last season. It would have been much better if respawn announced this at the start of the season so I would have known, but whatever, come next summer ill move over to PC and have to start fresh anyway i guess.