Recently I made it to crystal, after 142 wins
what I noticed is that 88 of those wins were me trying to get out of bronze tier
that is over half of my games were me trying to get out of the first tier
in comparison it took me less than 22 wins to go from diamond 5 to my promotion match to crystal
This seems really counterintuitive, if Ranked is meant to be a test of your skill, every loss is a skill issue, and you are always the only constant, how come it's so much easier to climb in higher tiers than it is in bronze?
Is the skill level in bronze so so much higher than the skill level in diamond and crystal?

I'm not the only one who experienced this, a lot of my friends report the same tier hell in bronze that only gets better the higher they climb.