Hot take : I don't think freelance will help trials. From my experience, freelance matches are WAY more sweaty than going into the playlist. I went into trials this week as a duo with a buddy of mine(we are both average PvP players, nothing special), and I'd say that the matches were pretty balanced. The worst part in my opinion is NOT the fact that you can go against a 3 stack but that I can match someone that teleports 5 steps back or have people on my team that leave intentionally, probably because they got their pinnacle, and only get a screen saying "OOPS, looks like you left a trials match, that's not very pog champ of you, please don't do it again UwU" as a penalty. I also think playing for 2-3 hours and spending 2/3rds of your materials only to get Poop-tier loot is also a big issue(Trials is not very rewarding in general in my opinion, I think having a chance to get drops in the end of matches no matter if you win or lose is something that we desperately need to grow the population).