Watching the Skirmish is rough. Laggy gameplay, laggy spectator, 20 player heal offs. 100 player lobbies with low kill incentive is just never going to work imo.
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To address your other 2 points. People are playing for lategame because getting into lategame is the best chance at getting safe kills. Taking early/midgame fights is RNG for the former, and very risky for the latter (due to getting 3rd party'd by literally everyone on the map)
The storm is also getting more elims because the server software can't handle the way competitive custom games with 100 highly competitive players are being played, thus everyone is literally rubberbanding back into the storm and can't move.