>>536669013
There's no reason to play ranked, the match quality doesn't get much better, the people are argubally worse, there's still no placements and you can still climb with a negative winrate. I personally had fun with ranked at first, then I had fun with friends, but now that I'm back being solo I realize I only had fun with ranked because of my friends, because the people you get matched with are miserable. I've had more games in ranked where people will go afk all game because of bans, scream in vc and give up after one lost team fight or complain about hero picks than I have in qp and experiencing that often just makes the mode not very appealing to play. I'm not sure if this applies to others but I do imagine a lot of people don't bother with ranked for a collection of those reasons I listed.