i've always been around 1k mmr now i'm actually at 580 mmr.
so back in 2016-17, matches and my overall experience were way worse than now, the devs have done a great job making the game feel better:
- every hero has their own courier and they don't have to buy/upgrade them. back then most of the times no one would buy courier, take forever to upgrade it, ppl getting it killed, etc….
- observer wards are now free, back in the days it was rare for players to buy wards. nowadays wards are everywhere same thing with sentry and dust, they are way more common now
- role match making is prob the biggest improvement so far. no more 5 man carry games.,ppl fighting for mid. there are still ppl that don't play their roles but it's much more tolerable now
but one thing I miss from old school dota 2 is uncensored curse words! it abseloulty didn't solve the toxicity of the game, ppl still rage like crazy
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/114zuh5/the_low_mmr_experience_has_been_massively/
