I truly wish Destiny had a real competitive mode that utilized a mix of elo rating and skill rating alongside rank to match teams. Instead, we have a mix of lobby balance, sbmm, and rank which leads to games being horribly unbalanced and punishes casual players more than anyone else. I will get max rank this season, I do every season, but I am an outlier. If you’re not a top 0.1% player then launching a game of competitive is the most miserable experience currently in pvp, and even for me it’s unenjoyable at best. There is ZERO reason a silver or gold player should be matched with or against me in a lobby filled with four or five 2.0+ kd players all in platinum or higher rank. That is going to be a miserable experience for that player and is going to be a miserable experience for the teammates of the team they get placed on Lobby balancing has no place in any competitive game modes. Period. Points earnings should be clear and based on performance alongside win or loss. When the majority of the player base is getting put into lobbies they don’t belong in, get bad teammates or feel like they have zero impact on their games the competitive playlist starts to feel more like spinning a wheel for a random outcome rather than having agency. If you are not a very high skilled top player you are rolling the dice that is stacked against you. Of course, I will admit, not everyone deserves to be every rank BUT it’s better to be in silver and KNOW that you belong in silver because of your skill level that is entirely in your control, rather than be in silver and feel like the only reason your silver and your friend is gold is because they rolled the dice better than you. Make the competitive playlist a true and real competitive experience, the same that’s offered in other games, not this mix of a half casual playlist with some competitive aspects that tries to please everyone and in turn pleases no one.