Man, I need to find some kind of discord group or just go to locals, because online quickplay is just driving me insane at this point.
After more losses than wins over the past few days, I realized how much I took Bo3/5 or infinite rematch for granted in other titles. Yeah there's technically infinite rematch here, but GSP swings so heavily and it's so in your face that I don't blame people for worrying about it or getting demoralized when/if the number tanks after a loss, or barely budged the needle even after a hard fought victory. I don't think I have ever seen such a strong and prevalent "one and done" atmosphere in any fighting or multiplayer game I have ever played in my life.
But alright, you get into a quick play with decent rulesets and the pressure to play and adapt mid match is insane because you know win or lose, the other person is highly likely going to bail after one game, you gotta hold the L if it happens, or you just won't have the opportunity to keep playing and learning a particular match up (and god, with a game with a roster as big as this, I would prefer larger chunks of learning the match against one character at a time rather than fighting random characters).
Shit, I'm not great at the game at all, but there were definitely a few matches, win or lose where I was like "oh shit, this person is close to my skill level; let me rematch because I think I can learn like th- oh they bailed and now I'm fighting someone entirely different."