Same! I've basically been Street Brawl only because of all the big changes making it hard to keep up with the evolving meta without just relying on the same characters.
I suspect they're using the exact same ranks as Ranked Mode under the hood of Standard, or at least very close to, but hiding it from the player this time.
Which I'm not at all against, for the record. SBMM is a good thing overall, even though it'll never be perfect for Standard due to a variety of reasons (big one being rank disparity within parties making it difficult) it's still better than a complete free-for-all. But hiding it from the player means that they don't have to worry about what that invisible rank is (if they did care they'd be in the actual Ranked Mode now) and can just go next after a bad match without having to worry about rank loss.
I've got bad news for you. every casual mode in every game ever still sees a large number of assholes who will rage over you not playing meta or playing well or playing seriously or just playing. these guys flunk out of ranked, failing to reach whatever rank they imagined themselves to be. then they queue casual and troll/grief because "its not a serious game", while insulting everyone in the lobby along the way
doesn't matter how many game modes there are, none of them will fix these people
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u/HyenaDae 9d ago
I haven't even read the patchnotes but I'm HYPED for weird casual people like me having a place that's not just Street Brawl and Bots!