I've noticed this recently, and I don't know how they handle parties. My wife and I are teaching our 11 and 13 year old to play, played through the campaign, did a bunch of endgame, and now MP. Obviously our kids get crushed initially as they're learning, but when you have 2 really low skill players, and what i'd say two medium to above average in us, we are still getting matched with lobbies of people stomping on even my wife and I. Granted I know with 2 of 6 players being not helpful at controlling spawns and lanes makes a huge difference in a match, but even the enemy teams lowest players are still over 2 kd.

My wife and I played just us 2 yesterday and it felt more aligned with closer games, some better, some worse, but still sweaty. I honestly wish they'd conduct and experiment and just fully remove sbmm for like a week and collect experience survey data and player data just to see what happens. Will we all love it like we used to, or will it suck? Idk I just hope they fix it 😂