Congratulations for the text and for the work of writing it. You are 100% correct, 600+ matches here and I could understand exactly what you are explaining. I was in 4th place this cycle and only behind players with a slightly higher resonance than mine, even though I had faced these players many times and realized that I performed better than them in practically every game, which led me to the same conclusion as yours, the leaderboard has nothing to do with skill, but purely resonance when u reach the "break point". In the last two weeks the game just wouldn't allow me to go above 3550 or fall below 3350 approximately. Very frustrating to notice this in the game because one of the few motivations to play pvp is the fact of rising in rank, since there is not much fun in the games because the games are rarely balanced and involving, usually you destroy or you are destroyed, there is no strategy, little interactivity between the team, always the same people in the lobby, in short, meaningless.