Many people do resort to xims in order to reach high rank.
I had no problems getting to Masters without cheating and so did many others, though.
We’re used to dealing with it. Fighting these players just makes us better.
I played on PC once using a controller, and was shocked at how bad the players are. A surprising number of Ana’s and Zen’s and other aim intensive heros compared to console, but they had zero game sense.
I was only Gold or Plat on PC as I don’t know how to use mouse and keyboard that well. So I was technically smurfing, but still.
I expected PC Golds to be the equivalent of Low Diamonds or something on console.