I put myself in the newcomers place and I think about their possible experience with this game.
I do the same as myself in my every day play where I get in constant contact with a weird mixture of bad ass FT players, noobs, and the mix between them.
I believe this game needs a rank system to kind of put everybody in its rightful place to prevent frustation to both sides.
Imagine a newcomer who just bough the game to be the GREAT PREDATOR of the movie he loves so much (all game ads show it rocking the humans) and face skiilled FT players all the time (cuz most of us here bought this game at its release date and we all know the pain we have been through to be able to win as this charater).
We on the other hand, sometimes face FT players who simply hole up in a building to protect themselves and dont care about their mission forcing us to wait long 15 min to win or simply rush at them risking our precious green blood.
From Skilled ft players who wisely separate to call reinforcements and spot us everywhere and all the time to total noobs there’s a big gap between all of this.
So I believe a rank system would put everyone in its rightful place and allow all kinds of players to face similar leveled oponents, thus preventing frustation to both sides, especialy to the newcomer’s who might give up the game early when they notice the pred in this game is more like a clown with some kitchen utensils trying to shine.