[2022] What’s the deal this weekend??

While it might not be tilt, it could be a lack synergy or miss plays. A good, balanced, team comp greatly improves your changes if winning. Item builds also have an impact, and when you are new it can be tricky to learn what and when you should be building something.

You also gotta remember that there are 9 other people in the game and any one of them might be tilted or going off. That can have a large impact on your game. This is why I HIGHLY discourage any raging/trash talking, and suggest playing with all chat off (not saying you are doing this, it's just general advice). Encouraging your team when they do well (thumbs up) is more likely to help you climb than any reminders that someone made a mistake.

Sorry I'm on in-game (champions, controls, maps and modes) so I don't have a great answer for you here and don't know how the team feels or what their plans are.

I know we still have devs employed working on this so I'm sure work is being done to improve it, but I don't know what shape that'll take.

Ya that's disheartening for sure. If you are looking to focus on climbing than I suggest learning the jungle role. It has the highest impact on the game (as a non-jungler I think this is too high) and gives you alot of control over the pacing and where you wanta put your teams focus.