I know blizzard doesn’t care (after all they bring money buying multiple accounts) but I’d really appreciate if I missed or if there is an official thought of the team.
I abandoned any competitive desire to be better since games are often ruined by leavers, smurfs and bronze is already really hard to figure out how to escape. I’m not ashamed to say that the only time I was near to silver, it was thanks to smurfs with little or no credit from me.
Now, if you play quickplay you’ll get a smurf, I’mfromconsole or alternate account or whatever they like to lie about it, in 1 game out of 3-4 (if not more than one); the only ones talking about it are those who wanted to go competitive but have to play until level 25 (an incredible silly thing, since they pay for that they should get to play comp from 1st level).
What I’m afraid affects me or people around me is more a psychological side-effect; since we’re too used to see smurfs, you begin to doubt of every low level player who’s performing strangely good and then you start throwing or caring less about the game since you can see how a low level tracer/genji/lucio starts carrying whole games alone; you begin to be harsh in chat and they usually make fun of you and go for the great classic “get good”