I can help you. It's because there are significantly less people playing this game now because of managements decisions. There are less people and teams to match you with. Hope this helps.
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with the player population, at least when it comes to online versus. I am getting matches, the problem is that I am immediately matching with players who are nowhere near me in CR which is resulting in largely uncompetitive games. There are plenty of high level players to be matched with, I'm just not facing them for whatever reason (the matchmaking is probably completely random).
I'm also a top 50ish player and I've been playing a lot of ~500CR players as well. Keep in mind though, a lot of players are from Europe or across the country so the game is probably prioritizing connection more so than rank. It's a tough balance but I'd rather a smooth connection game versus a worse player than a super laggy game versus a top 50 player lol.
