“Don't like poor play? Use a static!” thoughts

[Penthea]

I’m curious to hear from anyone in a similar situation - do you feel like playing with more reasonable players makes you dread DFing things?

No. I expect people from DF and PF to be average at best, and I'm pleasantly surprised when they're better than that.

Keep your expectations realistic. People who play together often and can communicate with voice chat will most times be better than random people you meet. You don't know how random people play and they don't know how you play. You also generally are not in voice chat with random people. Of course the experience with them is far less likely to be amazing. These people are strangers and you can't communicate with them as easily.