Lag is causing me to lose every single fight

Nearly every fight I am being shot through walls when I should be safe. Enemies are shooting their mag and it registers all the hits in large chunks. This makes it basically impossible to make decisions about when and where to engage because I think I'm safer than I am, but in reality the game is not telling me about damage I'm being dealt. An I'll pop out of a doorway, shoot the enemy, who the heck knows where my shots go because 85% of my shots just travel through the enemy player model without registering a hit, and by the time I'm back behind the wall, THEN the enemy damage starts hitting me.
How is it this hard to make a game match me with local people? Are you really running out of players to match me with? Is Apex player count so low I have to constantly connect to people in Asia? Stop. Match me with people with low latency. You're literally cheating your players when you allow this crap. Damage input and hit detection are the two single most important things in the game. I shouldn't have to get killed because the enemy within 10 feet can somehow sidestep a fkin bullet and then shoot me through the wall.