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Skill level in terms of rank is relative. You got better? Cool so did everyone else and even more so if you’re dropping.
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Just because you played a lot doesn’t inherently mean you got better. I can go and swing a golf club for hours without having a real clue what I’m doing but it’d be “practice”, still wouldn’t get me anywhere and if anything it’d just reinforce bad habits.
Can you get better over time? Absolutely. But people who say things that boil down to “I play a lot so give me higher rank” are really just not looking at anything deeper than surface level and their fallacies show.
Say whatever you want but that won’t change that raw time played ≠ skill or improvement on its own. Especially if you’re mentality isn’t in the right place to actually look at your own play and matches objectively, not just saying “I did good here and my teammates made me lose.”
Gonna give this thread a nice big “mute” either way. It’s nothing more than the same old “system hates me and is keeping me from being the higher rank I deserve” vs “nah you’re trash and aren’t improving” when in reality both camps are not 100% right as much as they want to be. People do get better but you don’t inherently “deserve” a higher rank just by playing a lot or even just by spending a lot of effort/time on improving. There needs to be actual results, you know the improvement itself that outpaces how your peers are improving.
Realistically pretty much all players are bad judges of what they “deserve” as they’re inherently going to be biased to over or underestimate themselves depending on how optimistic or pessimistic they are. And even coaches aren’t always objective as chances are some will try to “butter up” their client in order to get more money/get them to buy more coaching sessions.