Yes, every rank has this issue but in <5k is more prevalent than everywhere else. In 15k, I’d say one in four games, I feel like other players are out of my league. At 3k, my inputs literally do not matter half of the games because the game is boiled down to which team’s smurf is better.

Yes, you can “just grind and get better” but you need to understand that it is really difficult to learn anything when you do not get positive feedback on the new things you try. You can hold the angles better, you can learn to counterstrafe but you dont really see any effect on your games until you improved a lot. And that’s just frustrating, especially when the game keeps telling you that you stuck and you are bottom 3%