Look, you've hardly played any crucible. Being as I am a top 1% player, this really isn't about level of competition. I enjoy having close intense games, but I also enjoy having relaxing games where I can mess around, try out new weapons, have some fun with NLB, etc. like we could for all of year one. Has my k/d gone down a bit since TTK? Not really. Has my level of fun changed? Absolutely The only option now is to try hard all the time. It's exhausting. It makes us salty and angry. Now a large part of why it makes us salty is that our matchmaking pool of equally skilled players is rather small. Since the game prioritizes skill, we are constantly playing lagging players which completely negates the whole point of the matchmaking attempting to get equally skilled players together. What's seriously sad though, is that ToO aside from games 7-9, is the most relaxing place in the crucible generally for good players. How the matchmaking ran before the taken King was fine. They are legitimately losing players over this because it sucks. Good players will always be good. SBMM is fine in a ranked playlist or the iron banner. It's not fine in a game with no ranked playlists and already questionable net code The skill based matchmaking is also going to increase the amount of try hard required for lower tier players so I'm not sure why you think that it will make your crucible experience better. BTW the only way to get better is to play and play better players is the fastest way to get better