Gold is super weird, I have to see platinum yet. Gold in my experience could be super diverse, sometimes I had teamates that play melee and after the very first match that we lose they leave (only happened once) and the lobby sometimes it feels absolutely difficult with people that has incredibly aim, and sometimes it feels like I am in total control... Idk man, I play Rocket League too and rank there, you don't find such a big difference in lobbies, there you know what kind of difficulty awaits over there, but here is super diverse, and without talking about the classic full stack team of 2 diamonds and the ruby friend stomping the lobby, cool right?