On Xbox, the 4-5 person lobbies were the norm prior to the lobby update. After the update, the lobbies were mostly full with the occasional bailers, but fewer and fewer as most were willing to stay for crap conditions in a full lobby knowing that the next one might be better. The full lobbies are what gets you up or down the leaderboard and that's what people want in ranked play. What they've done is taken away the chance for conditions to your liking when it's 1-2 winds, soft greens or 10-15 Tournament greens ALL DAY LONG. People have given up and moved on as evidenced by the rare full lobby. This time of day at the start of the updated lobby there'd be no delay to jump in one, now - 3 or 4 tries and then it's 3 other people. If I keep hitting join and back out, eventually I'll catch a group just getting back and have a 12-14 game. I'm not spending 20 minutes for .05 points by beating 3 other people. That's what EA has turned this into.
