https://youtu.be/liCwNA2btTI Although this video is about early Trials, it also applies to IB and Control. When you have mm where there is no skill-stratification (CBMM), the better players create a hostile environment for weaker players and drive them out of the game. Then the next lowest level of players. And so on and so on. Skill creep has the same effect on mm pools that distillation has on alcohol. It takes some that is at low concentration in the player pool, and starts making it more and more and more concentrated. Until what used to be only 5% of the pool is eventually 75 % of (150 proof). The problem is that many people can enjoy alcohol when it’s in low concentration. Very few people can stomach the taste of distilled liquors straight. So you create a situation that few people want to be a part of. Trials was a perfect storm of design failures as Bungie was believing their own spin about it being for the best of the best. So everything about it drove average players out, and the playlist kept imploding. The same thing is happening in 6s. It’s just taking longer as Bungie keeps doing things to slow the progression. If it weren’t for cross play diluting out the skill creep like adding Coke to rum or tonic to gin? The situation would be even worse. All lobby balancing has done is present the problems of skill creep in a manner that solo high skill players can’t deny anymore. They’re simply getting a taste of the conditions they insist that everyone else play under…. …and they don’t like it either.