Eeeh, small update.
I played some ranked. Got placed at the very beginning of Gold1. Finished around a 100 games fluctuating around that silver-gold border back and forth with a win ratio of about 50% which seems fair enough. Got some gold and shards and reward track stuff on the way. It wasn't that much compared to other activities in game, but it was still cool and at least something more compared to for example WvW, other PvP mode in te game.
...BUT!
Yeah. The mode feels just soo... soulless. Best you can get is people just doing what they can in silence. Worst you will get a crykids who flame right after 1st interaction or just go afk after one bad teamfight. With a bunch of bots wandering the map pointlessly doing hardly anything sprinkled in the middle. Yeah. I don't care whether "it gets better" or worse if I were to climb further. It doesn't seem worth it if Anet doesn't care enough to properly punish both bots and afks.
I guess I'll just keep progressing daily The Ascension achievements because that's like the only interesting thing you can get from pvp which takes more that a lot of direct grind I will be able to do when I feel like it. Other than that, the gamemode seems neglected and because of that doesn't seem worth the hassle on it's own. Unfortunate, I like pvp modes in online games, but I guess Gw2 is not the game I'm looking for. Especially considering that WvW is also not really in a good shape for similar neglection reasons.