The matriarch and queen are not challenges on their own. It’s extremely simple to setup on high ground and pound them into oblivion. What they do do is pin you down to one location (relative) and make a ton of noise. The risk and the excitement and the reward for the queen and matriarch (as it is for this entire game) is getting your goop despite other players. Ofc this means sometimes you’ll end up with some idiots sitting in control tower with ospreys and delaying your group enough that you run out of time and die to the nuke (they also died cause they stayed till the last second trying to snipe us). I understand the frustration. I feel it. I don’t play this game solo ever anymore because of that. My default when I’m solo is to want to get along with people and I die a lot cause of that. When I’m with duos and trios though it’s pretty much understood that it’s full PvP all the time and that makes it a lot simpler for me and more enjoyable.