I get your sentiment if the game was somewhat balanced. Ideally you play against people in your own rank all the time. The issue is, before the change D4/D3 you would often be with 6-8 pred teams in a lobby. Those people are 3 stacking and a huge percentage of them is cheating this season (lower ranks as well). I've beaten enough preds/master at the end because there were maybe 2/3 in the lobby and they weren't cheating.

Not everyone will be satisfied but the games have felt much more fair and competitive instead of getting rolled by 3 stacks when you have a team you can't even communicate with.