Make up your mind on matching and ranked.

Why do I have to play against people who are multiple leagues above me for 50+ games to actually get put into that level?

If my rating is consistently gold, and I'm constantly playing gold players, why do I have to trudge through all of bronze and silver game by game (at a 50% win rate, since roughly even matchups) before I'm placed into gold?

It seems to me that either I should only be playing against other bronze/silver/whatever, and thus move up faster by virtue of dramatic skill difference, or my rating should put me into gold without regard for promo series and such.

The chief issues with the current system, as I see it: 1)In theory the difference between LP changes for winning and losing when your rating is well above the league should cause you to move up steadily. In practice, promo series completely ignore this difference and in practice flip it entirely. Assuming matchmaking is working, a promo series is just flipping a coin to see if you advance (due to matchmaking working for 50% win rates).

2)Promo series have outsized importance. If your rating is enough above the league that you get 3-4x the LP for winning as you do for losing, why do you lose 50 LP for two losses in series? Shouldn't it just be 8-10 (or less, if you have a win in there)?

In general, I feel promo series are completely antithetical to the concept of having long term records be what matters. Frankly, I think it would be better to just make LP go from 0-150, and when you hit 150 you move up. (I add 50, since on average you need two promo series to move up, no matter whether you're a bronze player in bronze or a platinum player in bronze)