maybe you're right about that. i was almost always top fragging in silver and almost always had the most mvp's in the team, but we also lost alot of matches. therefore, it was annoying af to get out of silver. later on, however, i realised gold nova wasn't so much different, nor was mg1 and 2. mge and dmg was pretty much only smurfs.
since i never actually was in le, i don't have much experience from those players, but from the last games i did play where it was 4/5 le's or even 5/5 le's, it felt like it was legit decent people. barely any smurfs, no teammates who'll shoot you once you're out of spawn for not dropping awp.
and oh, if you don't feel like tryharding, derank. smurfing just to win is seriously such a pussy move. if you're going to play for the fuck of it and basically try to lose, then sure, go ahead.