Does Anyone Else Feel Like This Year's Grind Time Is Exceptionally Hard For Solo Players?

I primarily play ranked solo and occasionally duo. Every year around this time it gets exceedingly hard to climb because everyone seems to want that next rank. But this year seems especially brutal as a Solo Player, I'm wondering if it's just me. I usually play until I lose like 2-3 games and then play something else but usually i have more wins than losses. But this week, Every day I log on i feel like I lose my first three ranked games because I get those people who are uncarryable. almost all my recent wins were in normal matches. I'm not normally one to blame my team, and I know i made mistakes in these games. But I've been getting some of the most toxic and clueless people recently. Toxic people I normally try to talk down, that's not working. Clueless people normally listen to pings if you let them know why not to do something, that's not working. I was in high gold (now Gold 5 again) but every match feels like I'm back in bronze 5, No useful communication or teamwork. Anyone else having this problem? or do I just have to watch my games again and it's just me.