Is anyone else bothered by the lack of incentive for mediocre players to improve?

[Viridiana]

"Not easy" is a impossible barrier for pugs and DF groups, so what is the point of bringing it up and pretending that the people asking for higher are unreasonable. It's not easy to run a marathon but I'm not going to go to McDonald's and ask some random customers to do it.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think the people asking for higher as a precaution are being unreasonable. PF and DF are luck of the draw, and there's way more bad out there than good. But to say that the fight is straight up impossible at the minimum level is something I take issue with.