Now that the summer school also finished, we would probably have way worse solo queue quality overall. I guess I should start playing 1s until September school resumes.
And, please remember to report bad behavior, once enough reports sends in, then toxic accounts would be flagged and probably trigger review/autoban. If no one does it, then it will just keep running rampant. Yes, even report the guy idling on opponent team or own goal.
You’re probably not shadow banned. Psyonix/Epic just doesn’t care. I’ve reported probably hundreds of afkers/smurfs/trolls by now and I never got a notification saying they were banned and I have gone afk plenty of times myself when I get bad teammates and have never been banned. I have received notifications when they said a no no word though.