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?

So I was trying to play in the afternoon, and lost twice, with close to bottom fragging. I went for a \~1.1km jog, and played an escalation like 3 hours later. My gosh, the experience hit different. It was like I was a lot more alert, and...