Matchmaking is placing me with higher elo players

AND I'M LOVING IT!

I'm not sure what caused this considering I've been B3-S5 for the past couple seasons however so far this preseason I have over a 90% win ratio so that's what I'm attributing to this. Anyways, in several recent games I've been getting matched up with gold and platinum elo players and though it's made things considerably tougher I'm personally loving the challenge.

These players are actually punishing me hard for my mistakes which is in turn FORCING me to learn and adapt in real time just to avoid losing to them and the element of randomness in terms of teams throwing back and forth feels almost gone from these games. Because I literally have to try hard just to not die too it keeps me from going on auto pilot which has seen to it that I play better more consistently now too.

I wish I could get matched with higher elo players more often because this is what it takes for me to improve and get better at this game. I learn by being punished over and over again for every tiny little mistake that I make which other Bronze and Silver players just don't do for me. I'll be sad if it turns out that this is a bug though and that it'll get fixed because then my learning will slow down again... x.x

Anyone else experiencing this though and if so, what are your thoughts on it?