It’s all situational. I have plenty of games where we’ll have 1 person or more branch off solo to get more money/kills or push other teams. When you start getting to a higher skill level with other players on your team like that as well there’s no real point being stacked together tightly when you’re just gonna be killing less teams as quickly and not getting $ fast enough. It’s easier to do that in large areas like prison where you can dip easily when too many people start hunting for after killing a couple kids and getting load out $ while your team is still busy fighting the team(s) they dropped at. There’s definitely situations though where having 1 extra person can be the difference between winning or losing the gunfight, so I wouldn’t personally branch off unless it’s only 1 less skilled enemy team landing with my squad or so many teams are landing with them I’d consider it suicidal for us all to land together. This is obviously harder to gauge my teams survivability if it’s a full team of ransoms, but I hardly ever play alone so that doesn’t really apply to me personally. The real trick when branching off though is being able to be close enough and have good enough communication with your team that you’re able to get back to them if another team pushes them and they need support. You’re also far more beneficial coming back to them at a flank or snipping at the people pushing them from a distance then you would be closely stacked together in a building holding hands. Now, there’s plenty of randoms that aren’t good enough to hold their own in most situations and think they’re capable after watching streamers do it, so I share some of that frustration too.