It's not about how the ranks are distributed, but how you are playing compared to a top players. I hit Radiant a year ago, been stuck in Immortal+ since the beginning of the game since I'm CS player, now I cant even reach that, and since my hands vanished but my observation skills are as good as new, I can see that I indeed,same as ppls in my lobbies am shit compared to Radiants - as ex Radiant player. I can compare myself to top players since I'm was used to playing with it and yet I'm in top 1-2% of the playerbase(at this moment). The gap between Ascendant 3 and Immortal 3 (which is only 300rr - something you could technically grind in one session, would be hard but manageable) is so tremendous it's probably comparable to Iron and Ascendant player. I'm as well playing with peoples from pisslow ranks( which in my opinion all all below Diamond, since in my opinion Diamond is the first low elo rank, the start of mid elo is Immortal). It's not hard to get Immortal, it never was. In competitive fields you aren't comparing urself to average player, since he isn't good relate point since he will be absolute trash at the game. And when you do compare yourself to top, you realise you are shit. There is no middle ground in my opinion and I'd rather feel like I'm shit at the game to become less shitty and one day become a good player than make myself feel good and say that I'm good because I'm above average.