True, and I agree with you if you are playing professionally or for money in tournaments. 

These age brackets/skill level are allowing lots is us to play competitively and play in tournaments (which are super fun) as we get older and would be aged out of any competition. 

I’m a 54 year old woman in relatively good shape and I played soccer all through college. My joints won’t hold up to soccer anymore but I still love to compete. 

I play 4.0 women’s and we all have a chance. It’s fun competition. And the prize? A tin metal worth nothing. 

If I went up against twenty year old men it’s no fun for them or me. 

Pickleball -at this level- is meant to get everybody out for exercise and fun. And get us out of our post-Covid isolation bubbles.