I've seen a few posts talking about how awful ranked is/was so I thought I'd offer the other perspective.
I dreaded going back to ranked when split 3 started, the reason for my dread was simple: normal games. Since emerald was introduced my ranked goal each season/split has been E4, a goal which I have hit every time so far. In split 2 though, I got particularly lucky and got E4 after just 10 games going 7/3. I still wanted to play league after that however so for the rest of the split I played normal draft and I hated most of it.
I normals it felt like 90% of the games are either we are getting shit on as a team but team still refuses to ff for some reason I will probably never understand


