Most not all, people are in higher division because they don't have connection issue. I made a list of people and their location, win or loss, in Rivals vs me last year. I did max rivals games 3 weeks in a row. I was in division 2. The most people I played, by far, were people in Montreal or DC area, which happens to be where servers are. I play all different online games, no issue. The best connection I felt was when I played people in my area. This games population is so low they have to match people everywhere and some people will have big advantage. I was going to wait for crossplatform or crossplay whatever it was but there is no use at this point. This game is pretty bad, obviously by all the bugs and crap, you think adding server locations and fixing their * netcode is top of the list?
I am done with EA games tbh. Over the past few years everything they make is *.