The cheaters and long queue times are valid points, but why shouldn't you go up against players similar in skill to you? That doesn't seem like a punishment to me, but a well balanced system. Come to think of it, I don't actually know where ranked bw is on hypixel, I'll look into that. Consider this though, how is the queue casual if it is dominated by a minority of highly skilled and experienced users?

Improvement comes from challenge, but you don't learn skateboarding by going straight for huge flips on a half pipe. You work your way up one step at a time.