Most of the the noobs left game, pvp participation is all time low, the only people who keep playing arena are either boosters, or gladiators gearing their alts.
It is insanely hard to farm rating right now, compared how was it at the start of the expansion. At the start you could get to 2400+ WAY easier, most of the people you fought were new players or returning players who last played in wotlk.
You have to sweat blood for every +14 cr right now, its extremely unfair to play right now, knowing that my 2k cr would be 2500 if i were to play at the start.
“Glad players” sitting at 1500 and then ontop of that you have genuine glad players boosting at the very same rating making it borderlining impossible to play with most of the randoms you might queue with. Alting or playing late has become a thing of the pass without being carried by a more geared person.
Since you say that. No I dont think it does. Specialy when whole LFG is full of ,I SELL BOOST, 15K FOR ONE WIN, ppl and these at low rating gladiators are full Elite geared or very close to it.
Someone with full gear and gladiator skill isnt supposed to sit 1200-1800, nor should the whole top rated elite of this game. Speacialy when they got over 3000 rating.
At this time there is more ppl overgeared for their rating, either due to reasons of PVE players joining for PVP content, honor gear being worst for PVP then PVE gear and also quite literaly more boosters then casuals joining up for low rated arena…
I do think that cause meeting only ppl who have average 10k more HP then you, while you are not even fully geared for your rating level. There might be something extremely wrong with this…
I almost never seen players for whom arena was fun content - “ooooooh, i like to play against RMx, wow so much fun” or “Thats warriors - wow so cool to play against”. 99% playing for rewards or achi, for their own reason “why”, sm1 like to flexing at kids, sm1 for self-realization. If you so need that goal, just buy coaching or boost - game is about this nowdays. Nobody wants to play with equal players, everyone is looking for better players and think that they better than any in LFG.