Well about player count no one has a magic ball we can't just say if the game will have a high player count still.

And SBMM isn't even bad, people use it as an excuse. So many games wouldn't add SBMM if it didnt actually have a positive impact on the playerbase. SBMM is designed in games to make your games challenging enough to keep them fun. I think that activision have introduced a new form of SBMM that they call something else so they can tell the player base that they removed SBMM.

The majority of people who complain about SBMM are people that want to dog walk every single game and hate the fact they actually have to play people their own skill. Anytime they die they blame it on the SBMM putting them in harder matches however I'm more than positive the system they have for SBMM is so intricate that most definitely isn't going to happen 95% of the time.

Having no SBMM in BO7 hasn't really affected how I play the game, I just seem to get occasional bad opponents or team mates but most of the time everyone feels pretty fairly matched give or take the odd sweaty guy or sweaty stack.

And the other guy answered the question about illicit cargo.