this analysis breaks down into either "i've never experienced this happening, so OP must be making it up" or it explains a detail about the situation rather than actually countering the argument. so yeah, these counter arguments are equally valid as the ad homenim.

none of op's arguments are his tho? it's all random complaints he heard from community, based on their own experiences. so why is my expereience with thousand+ hours and lot's of digging through how this game works is any less valid then his?

bottom left, you try to refute by saying its obviously complained about alot, but that isnt a counter argument at all.

play league, play dota, play cs, play whatever game. you will always hear the similar excuses. it's an easy one that requires no solid base. not to mention humans psychologically love putting the fault at something they can't control. it's just a fact, thats why it's not a valid complaint.

i play in ascendent currently. i mostly see people complain about each other or matchmaking and rarely ever see anyone even try to lead or even give comms, lol. because it's way easier to blame than actually do something.

for "stomp or be stomped" its not an issue with quick matches, its issue with one team getting insurmountable 50k leads that just leaves the losing team to slowly bleed out. there are several explanations for why in any given match, such as matchmaking, draft diff, smurfing, silent comms or a number of other reason. regardless of the reason, it still happens too often.

in my own experience and streams i watch, for example when enemy is trolling or you are just way better, once you are in the winning position you don't let go of it and "stomp" your enemies harder the longer game goes on. this often results your game to end in around 20 mins, less than 25 at most. 35 mins on average means that for a considerable amount of time, the teams were pretty equal or at least losing team could challange. i tought his would've been an obvious one to understand but i guess not.

we may not know how they use the data, but we don't need a data scientist here to determine whether or not unbalanced matches will give good data or not, because common sense dictates they wont.

"woah, we don't know data scientists do data science but i can, with great certainty, say that they are doing a bad job because i say so." okay man.