>ranked
too hardcore, simply maintaining a 50% win rate demands my soul and time, requires lots of practice and analyzing every new patch and meta.
>unranked
one sided stomps cause either one team is caring less or parties skew the matchmaking and it's full of low ranks, might as well play bots.
>smurfing
Fun if you love mid, but for a support player like me it's shit. Coordinating with worse players as a support actually makes me a worse player because none of my mistakes get punished and I typically only die from a lack of focus with all the dumb plays happening.
out of everything the only way to have fun in dota these days seems to be smurfing as mid.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/v7w28y/this_game_is_not_fun_anymore/