Why in gold 3 am I playing with silver 4 players every few games?

These aren't 100% winrate smurfs either, I'm getting hit with people that are clearly in a low silver level of play. Some are fine with mechanics, but have no concept of the big picture, and others the opposite. I don't have any wild issues with people because of their rank (I don't play with a single friend that isn't silver 4 or lower...), but I wanna have a "fair" chance of winning ranked matches and someone an entire set of ranks below me feels rough. Surely there are enough gold players that a match can be cobbled together from gold 4 to 2 and find two teams to play each other. I'd feel better about taking my chances with someone that I at least know has gone through roughly as many promo matches and been able to play well enough to advance.