My guess is, you probably don’t experience this issue because you’re not playing at a high MMR.
When you get to a high MMR in team games, the player pool shrinks. Because blizzard changed the way the algorithm works back in patch 3.0, it basically works likes this: you queue at high MMR, if you don’t find a game within 6minutes and 30seconds, anyone and everyone will be able to queue into your game because like me were waiting in queue for 1-2 hours per game.
The problem has evolved into " predictable queues " that are basically able to be manipulated by anyone even brand new accounts with no games played on them, because when you get to the top of the ladder there’s not many people at your mmr queueing at the same time.
This has created a huge hacking problem for people like me because if I stream, I get targeted with it and I can’t play the game.
Other games have handled this method ( because it’s been heavily abused in games like LOL/Dota/CS:GO etc ) by saying " Ok, if you cancel your queue for ANY reason, you wil get put into a low-priority queue timer " This makes it so people who are messing with the match making queues can’t just keep harassing someone because " well I don’t like it him "
This has been swept under the rug for years now because you literally can’t report the culprit as the game DOESN’T start and there’s no player information that is given to who was responsible for why the match didnt start. Have you ever watched Serral stream his ladder sessions where he’s getting drop hacked? That’s an MMR issue, it’s predictable and the exact same thing applies to team games.
And i’ll be honest, it doesn’t surprise me in the slighest that when I make posts about this there’s so much resistance. No one to this day understands why blizzard put SEA server on the NA server, if they patch this, people won’t have a way to keep the high ping games out of their game. However it DOES need to be patched so that people like me can actually play the game again.
Regardless, it’s designed in a way to keep the playing field even with the ping issues, but in the process has killed off all of these demographics because they just get queued on NA servers the entire time they are playing UNLESS there is someone within in their local region playing which I can tell you from my experience basically doesn’t exist anymore because they got tired of playing in 300 ms.