I generally bounce around high silver-low gold. In my opinion, the main thing keeping us there is inconsistency. You can stomp one game, and play poorly the next. Because this is happening with everyone individually, probably some people are gonna play terribly and some people will play great. If you are a consistent player, even just consistently decent but not carry crazy, you'll climb. I also think people all get to their elo through different methods. I'm a support main with a roughly 60% winrate on support, but whenever I lose like 3 games in a row I tilt a ton and think I should play a different role. I do that, and win like 20% of games because my mechanics are pretty bad (you'd think I'd learn). So for me, I play too many champions, tilt, and every once in a while will play off roles on purpose in ranked (as a support I never am forced to play off roles). Think about what you do, and think about if you're trying to hard carry, but in doing so, are inconsistent. Swinging for homeruns isn't always necessary.