December 2019
I'm a pretty new player, so that is the perspective I'm bringing. The problem I see with Apex Legends is that it's hard to get into on your own. Teams of 3 (or even 2) have such an advantage over you as a Solo Q player. Making the issue worse yet, there is no ranked play for Solo Q. I understand why, and that's because the player base probably isn't big enough to support it. That leads me to my next point.
Remove punishments. People come on here crying about how someone left their game and all of that. I get that sucks, but honestly, it's not the end of the world. If someone dies, they should be allowed to leave and enter another game immediately to help keep the player pool up. If a player leaves a game right in the beginning, why punish them? Most of the time the leaving is due to a crash anyways. Let them log right back on and join another game. (I'd also add let them join back into the game they were in if they want. They might not be dead yet.) I believe most of the people whining about how players need to be punished more are doing so more in the moment, but the truth is more games would be available if punishments were reduced. That's not to say a player couldn't be punished for repeatedly leaving games in a short period of time as that is then a pattern of behavior.
Anyways, I would like to see a Ranked Solo Q once the player base can support it and I'd like to see punishments removed for the most part.