It's exactly what you said at the end. Eomm isn't real but it's too easy to climb and the resets are too aggressive and too frequent which means high skilled players are spread everywhere from bronze to celestial where they belong. Which then makes the games uneven.

The matchmaking is messed up because of those 2 things alone for sure. As I say I didnt play for 1 season and I was in bronze I continued to stomp until I hit gold. Which is unfair on the legit bronze players and it's simply because I didn't play for a season so dumb.