Totally agree with you, my friends and I are losing faith in the game, Firestorm gave us a reason to give it another go (still playing BF4 Happily).
But every time we time to get a game the same long wait. The frequency between playing and waiting is not at the right percentage. For each game where we may last 30 secs to 15 mins, mainly due to the amazing ping we get, there is twice as long wait on the outside waiting for a game.
Come on EA, please fix this, It really needs fixing.
The only immediate (and temporary) fix I can suggest is making a Discord group and organizing times when you can all fill a server - Of course this will be pretty boring for the people who die right away since you'd most likely need to wait for the match to end but at least it's something.
It's months away but RSP should hopefully allow everyone to tweak certain settings like minimum player count to start. I hope your problem gets fixed soon
