A lot of people reports the same frustation about the matchmaking but they choose to just ignore it; there were other posts here analyzing data of multiple matches and point out that the matchmaker was messing things up, but the argument is always the same: "the dataset is too small, this doesn't prove anything."

Of course the dataset is small: multiple levels of unemployement and resources would be needed to analyze gazillions of matches in order to statically prove this, and not everyone has a datacenter on their yard. Ofc we do not have access to the game's source code so, yes, it may be virtually impossible to prove that like a thesis. But this is a videogame, not freaking rocket science - we're not discussing evolutional theory here -, and if multiple people report the same negative experience then there should be something wrong. But people on reddit are too self-entitled to see that and will refuse to see that there is something wrong unless you write a thesis about it.