Honestly coming from games like Apex Legends I can relate and already from my limited experience in Deadlock confirm that worst experience comes from games like described = first <5 min someone with no brain and fragile ego just feeds the lane and then it is mostly matter of is the game going to end in 10, 15 or 25 min.
Unfortunately that is a problem of a community! not matchmaking!
If you would look at Apex Legends there is a similar / same situation with 50% or really close to that "hot dropping" = major risk, basically no reward 99% of a time, and game for you as soloq player is done in <5 min or you are forced to camp for 15+. And it has been like that for like 5? years now. EA tried to fix it by introducing drop system such that eliminates possibility of hotdropping -> all those nubs revolted -> they reverted the change saying that it drove too many people away from the game aka better have total shitshow of a game with more players vs quality gaming with fewer = business baby.
Same can be said about Deadlock - people are just not suitable for TEAM COMPETITIVE game and the RIGHT way to play it till very very high level, in comparison to Apex I would say that level is like 95% of people are incompatible. 95% come to be MJ of the game aka solo carry, get all the kills, be the superstar, feed the ego with enemies and teammates suffering. Noone is proud about cool combo or strategy, everyone is flexing stats like kills, damage, kd.
Will Valve force such players into hardstuck shit rank like Riot does with Valorant aka <gold rank elo hell known to everyone ever touching Valorant? That is to be seen.
Currently Ranked and Matchmaking is just random testing I would assume and the fact that community is not ready to play the game the right way instead trashtalk others -> report -> get people muted -> discourage mic usage at all is the current state of the game.
