BS. You say so yourself.
If the matchmaker was even close to being worth 2 farts this would not be the case in the slightest.
I appreciate you not flaming, but bronze-silver has ZERO match quality integrity. Some of this is understandable through people have some strengths and weaknesses that offset. However, the match quality swings like a drunken sailor on a tire swing. This is the issue, not his skillcap.
Having to, as you say, have a skill of 3+ fulldivisions ,15 ranks, or 75+ games above 500 from there is completely and utterly stupid beyond belief. There is no other game I have ever played where this is even close to having to be the case.