This is true but the difference was starker with BR because when they blew up, no one knew how to play them. The difference of what you could get away with 3 month in vs a year in was gigantic and not just in a "wow they are so much faster than me" way.
It's probably also because i know my limits in a fighting game or CS but felt that winning a few times an evening in PUBG was "normal" and now even surviving a "spicy" landing is a small victory.
It's a bummer how much this pushes me away from going back to games I would probably enjoy going back to, because I know if I did it would probably just be a miserable experience at first until I pushed through the re-adjustment to new content I've never seen, but other people have been playing for ages. I loved playing PUBG when it was a new thing and still just one map, but now? Screw that, I'm not going to have an awful time playing for days until I internalize all the hotspots and good weapons again when other people will wipe the floor with me due to my ignorance. It's just not really much fun.
I started playing Modern Warfare last week and that game is pretty good (Blops 4 is better, don't @ me) but even a game that's only been out for a few months is a rough adjustment, since I clearly don't know shit about these maps until I've played them a few times, so getting dropped into a map I know 100% nothing about just ends up with me getting wrecked from people in nooks and crannies I didn't even imagine were there. After a few days I'm doing fine but it's never a very welcoming experience and I don't blame people for not wanting to deal with it.
I've wanted to play more Age of Empires 2 DE but lol screw ever trying to be competitive in one of the most hardcore RTS communities that's existed for 20 years now.