At some point between now and next September, can we please fix normal matchmaking

It happens every season: for every player in plat 1 trying to get to Diamond before the season ends, there's a player in Diamond 5 who doesn't want to play ranked anymore for fear of dropping out of diamond.

And for the last ~2 months of every season, normal draft is full of Diamond players (mostly Diamond 5 players). Normal games are grotesquely imbalanced, with multiple diamond players being placed on the same team against gold and silvers.

Yes, normal MMR is separate from ranked. There's no reason for normal MMR to influence rank. HOWEVER there is every reason for rank MMR to influence normal. Make normal MMR new = MAX{ normal MMR current, rank MMR - X } where X is something like 2-3 divisions. This would drastically help balance in normal matchmaking towards the end of the season.

I don't even terribly mind playing with/against diamond players. I understand that my normal MMR is far above my rank of gold 5. What I do mind, however, is that it seems the teams are frequently lopsided - a quick glance shows the lowest ranked player on one team is higher than the highest on the other team. It could be the literal same players in the game with 2 pairs of players swapped and the game would be somewhat even.

This should not be hard to implement. This should be a priority for how easy it is to implement. Normal games are supposed to be fun. I CAN have fun playing with people of a variety of ranks. I cannot always (but can occasionally) have fun playing lopsided contests where 3 diamond and 2 plat players are against a team with a plat, three golds, and a silver. These games are often bound to run out of control quickly and often trivially turn in to 20min surrenders or 10min open-mids.

If ranked is for try-harding, normals should be for fun. While they often still are, some of these games get frustrating. Especially when it seems it should be so easy to fix.