You are either contradicting yourself here, or admitting you are not an experienced “masterful” player (and therefore you really shouldn’t think yourself better than QM players), but oh well. Whatever the case, you end up agreeing with me, since you said it yourself, practice because you already understand the whole game and its maps and heroes, so you are not learning the very basics (the whole point). That’s how you do it, well done. so thank you.
And just to share thoughts, actually a MOBA is not balanced by the draft, is balanced by the characters stats and numbers, and what they can do with their abilities. Your particular ranked match, though, it can be affected by the draft, but that’s a very different story, since you are not “balancing” it, but you are trying to make it a controlled match (aka make it your safe-space), which, ironically, is contradictory to an actual competition, IMHO, but what do I know, I’m just a dude.
However, I will say draft actually makes it less exciting (and a bore of wasted time meanwhile, mind you), since you are demonstrating to either be incompetent, or at least afraid, to play against something (the best character/strategy in turn for the season), where you have to ban it so you can perform well and not get stomped by it, or simply 'cause you are trying to take advantage over the other team the more you can, so you win not by your own skill alone but by the involved handicaps (the opposite of balance), but I guess they can do the same to you, so that’s that, which is cool. Don’t get me wrong, being pampered is nice, removing the stuff that makes it difficult to play for you surely makes it easier for you to enjoy in return.
In QM, on the other hand, there is no such luxury and pampering, you get it rough, QM is chaos itself, QM is not for the faint of heart, it can end up being a horrible comp or a fantastic one on both sides, where the thrill of the unexpected is always present and in the end, all you are always left with in order to prevail is your own skill and understanding of the game itself. No handicaps, no fear of something, just a bunch of dudes supporting each other the best they can. Nothing beats the satisfaction of facing the most OP stuff, the ban-worth stuff, and succeed with your far from optimal, nor carefully nitpicked, comp. But not everyone will ever understand it, 'cause they will never dare to face it by their own will and instead they would’ve banned it to avoid facing it.
But to each his own, if you like rank for the sake of playing rank, cool for you. And for the people that likes to play QM for the sake of playing QM, cool for them too. Both have their highs and lows, and that’s fine.
Have a good one.