Kinda obvious LOL is past it's prime. Does not care for it's players, just the numbers.
Just took 9 minutes before draft pick queue started a game for me. The game was another incredulous missmatch, 0% chance of winning the other team tells me to "kill myself" and "%%%got" this "%%%%%%" that. nothing but gloating the whole time. Reported them sure, but chances they are sent to the tribunal? extremely low.
typically it takes 15-20 minutes to start a match, because of how often people dodge, there's virtually no penalty. then you have to put up with hate speech and vs a team you Faker couldn't win against if he were in my place. Riot boasts 14 million world wide players, but between those players they can't make even teams more often than once in a blue moon? I suppose not actually punishing hate speech and dodging helps keep those fake numbers up.
I suppose not making fair match ups goes into their formula of what keeps more players playing more games, spend more money. Who care's about the creating a fair experience for players, not riot.