It feels like AFKs are more prominent than ever before

Now I know all of the arguments lead to the conclusion that afks are just a part of the game, but when every other game has an afk on one team or the other, it's like @.@ I don't feel like I'm playing just league of legends, it becomes lag of legends. I know Internet is a fickle thing, and once every 6 months my service provider does something wonky. But every other game has an afk now. And they never even try to reconnect. Whether it be ragequitting or just random disconnect, it seems like the ranked system is really infuriating. Now I am perfectly okay with my rank, I know I belong here and that statistically eventually my skill or lack of skill will matter. It's just so unfortunate that a game I love to play, with so many unique and fun champions is plagued with 4v5s or 3v5s. Hell sometimes it's 4v4! The problem is with all of the afks, I feel like I'm emotionally drained while trying to play ranked. It's like "A summoner has disconnected" just makes me sigh and shake my head now, resigned to the fact that I'm stuck in an uneven playing field. In normals, when it doesn't matter whether I win or lose, it's fine. I don't mind. But with ranked, I'd like to see how my ability truly scales without having to go through a trial of patience and dedication. If I were 2 tiers above my current level in skill, maybe I could just win a 4v5. But I'm not. I'm just trying to squeeze out the last bit of potential before I throw in the towel and accept where I'm at. I feel like with the constant threat of having someone just totally disconnect at any given moment, I become less and less invested in a single game. It becomes more of a grind. Where can I get a full team? I toss game after game aside, looking for a 5v5 match among the 3 and 4 v 5 matches. I grow resigned to just giving up the moment I get a dc or someone spams the 9768 ms for 30 minutes. Sometimes they come back, but often times they don't even reconnect. Now I get life experiences yadda yadda but this is ranked, and the frequency that this occurs leads me to believe an awful lot of people are dying or their house is burning down. What's even worse is, many of these people afk frequently and get that 20 minute q time, but they continue to wait for 20 minutes to hit yes on a match and then they afk again. I just don't get it. I really don't. I love league, and I love many of the people that play the game, even if they afk. I just don't understand why it seems to be more and more frequent. I just don't remember this many people going afk a couple years ago when I started. What is the atmosphere now? (I'm not the guy asking why I got a permaban for raging at an afk and I don't support those people fyi) this is a separate rant from those.