[2021] Deserter Penalty needs to be fixed

Playing Strikeout, up 2-0, in round 3 my game crashes. I try to rejoin, it crashes again. By now, the game has ended, I get no Rep, XP or Mastery. I queue into another game, the other team surrenders after 1 round because it started as a 2v4, and then I'm given a deserter penalty. Is this because I couldn't rejoin the other match so it thought I left? Or is the game just really handing out deserter penalties for no reason? It's frustrating because I never leave games on my own or try to end them early. Really want this to stop being a thing until the game is more stable and they figure out what they want to do about surrendering. If you leave games constantly, I get why this is in place, but punishing people because of bugs in the matchmaking isn't what I had in mind.