Like it's almost 1M and lot bigger than Apex. Was there anything in particular that valorant did over apex to grow the community size?

I have ranked anxiety. I am good in unrated and deathmatch but when I get a bad pistol round or my teammate says something toxic to me, I second guess everything I do and don't play aggressively as I normally do. I want to fix this problem...

How do you guys do this? I've been playing for a year and I'm hardstuck G3. Now I'm not saying that I deserve a higher rank. I'm hardstuck because I'm not good enough to go higher and I find that perfectly acceptable. My question is how do...