Definitely an issue. I went solo flawless this week. Here's the major issues I noticed. 1. Matchmaking for non flawless players is FAR more brutal than if you've gone flawless. After a trip to the Lighthouse, it becomes much easier and very STRESS FREE AND FUN. This is highly inverted. Nonflawless should feel this way, with wins after 7 being mega sweat fests. Like this is the stupidest part. While I'm enjoying it for now, that all goes away reset until I go flawless again. I have far more wins after 7 than before 7 🤷. That's stupid. 2. Non flawless matches trend to wins with solid teammates on games 1-3. Game 4 trends to a loss with potato teammates. Games 5&6 trend to being fairly easy like games 1-3. Game 7 trends to you having potato teammates against 3.9 lifetime KD 2 million crucible kills players. This whole aspect just needs to fn chill. Refer to #1. That's all I have for now.

You problem

Matchmaking in general is trash. I decided I hated myself this season I guess and went hard into 3v3 Comp. The matchmaking makes no sense. Just when I'm about to advance to the next tier, I start getting matched with potato-level players and lose over and over again. Am I expected to carry two other people to wins every time? It's so frustrating. Make it make sense. Edit: Oh and when I say "potato" players I'm not bragging about myself because I don't think I'm good at PVP. But if I'm carrying matches....that kind of feels like matchmaking is broken to me lol.

I was really liking trials this season but the whole just making solo play obsolete just ruined the entire experience for me.

If you don't like the team mates the system places you with then create your own team. There are plenty of LFG sites which cover D2 and Trials.