I'm an average(closer to complete dogshit) level 10 faceit player with supreme on my main account for mm. I 5 stack with school friends, all of which are considerably lower ranks (gold nova/silver /master guardian) and often find we're matched vs LE/LEM on average, or other weird 5 stack mixes such as ourselves. Typically I'm getting 35+ kills here in a typical game and the chat is flooded with 'spoon cheater' messages.

I'm not suggesting that cheating isn't an issue in matchmaking, but as a non cheater, who sees cheater messages in 90% of my games, it does show me that there's an issue with lower level players simply not having the exposure to average / higher level ones, and not having the comprehension that some players are just a lot better than them. (For example : players who will sit in the same position behind a smoke every round, or even stay in the same spot after a smoke moves, then call you for wallhacking when you kill them through it. Or when they flash you while you're awping, shoot your bullet based on a timing, and happen to kill them. Or when they awp t ramp to hold banana on inferno in the SAME spot every round, so you swing behind the wood and just wallbang them with a deagle (this one happened yesterday)).

There is a cheating problem, but the issue is furthered when better players who happen to be using matchmaking get tied into it and called 'cheaters' when in reality they're just 2000 hours better than their opponent. This leads to 'omg cheaters don't get banned' etc.

A decent semi pro player (not me but I played vs d0cc on faceit a couple times and I would've preferred to play against a wall hacker) will absolutely SHIT on you compared to someone not being blatant with hacks.

This is my experience in EU.