Bro, I smurfed 3 seasons from >500 to mid plat.
There is little skill variance in each rank, and you can clearly see how people higher do stuff that people lower don’t.
Example:
A silver pharah presses Q.
A gold pharah cancels a missile into barrage.
A plat pharah can 180, boost the ground, 180 and cancel into ult.
There is no “great skill variance” in the same rank.
My oppinion (you are free to disagree) is that the variance you see is
1- tilt. Its very rare to find a low Sr player that plays for fun and accepts their rank.
They think they are better than they are and tilt when something doesn’t go their wat (team comp, someone on a hero they don’t like, losing a fight, etc). So they tilt very hard and play quite worse.
2- players at low Sr fail to understand how the game snowballs and think a stomp is them being spanked by better players, instead is them being spanked by equal skilled players that played their cards better.
3- you need to acknowledge that rank isn’t a single skill. I met “Smurfs” or “aimbotting” (according to my team) and everyone was already crying on the hero select screen.
Most of the time It turns out the guy has next tier aim (but lower tier positioning) and he’s super easy to kill. But they died twice to the soldier standing in front of reins shield and they already give up.
And that’s what I think. Bottom line is that we all play the same game, some climb, some don’t, some fall.
At low ranks you can even check super easy If you belong (win and lose the same amount of SR) or if you are performing better or worse (bonus or penalty on wins and losses).
Also there are very few Smurfs in low ranks (compared to diamond), and if you try your hardest as a team you can learn (and sometimes win too!)
Also… Just listen to high ranks, they got there by putting the effort, gaining the experience and there are MANY high ranks, right here in this forum, willing to teach anyone how to climb.
Why not give it a try? It may or may not work for you, but complaining will definitely not