I’m not a super high rank so I can’t speak for all ranks, but personally silver was unbearable. Between afks, zero comms, etc, I was hard stuck for the longest time. I breezed through gold and am now in plat.

Yeah, because in patch 1.11 Cypher's trapwires after his death are launched off. So after reviving Cypher by Sage trapwires will be activated again? Guys, I have no clue...