I don’t like to be repetitious, but if most of us are honest, many reasons for these problems are known to us. We are not playing Hero League, we are playing the last two season of Team League when you could play solo or as a group, it’s just renamed Storm League.
When they merged the two leagues that created its own problems due to the very different MMR values a player could have for TL vs HL. We also have party abuse, not just with smurf accounts that are silver, where the real player is of a much higher rank, we have Diamonds grouping with their Gold friends, etc., pulling them up to ranks they don’t deserve.
I’ve seen countless people placed far higher and lower than they have ever been. I look at profiles and see lifetime Master ranked players now sitting in Diamond or Plat. I have also looked at profiles where lifetime Bronze players are now in Gold or Plat.
Don’t get me wrong, I play SL more than any other mode, but the games are more uneven than solo queue HL, as is the skill you would expect from someone at a particular rank. As I noted, we are now just playing the last 2 seasons of Team League before the merger.
I think many people don’t want to acknowledge this, because they have benefited from these changes.