Ranked is legitimately the future for this game.
These new changes to loot in ranked are absolutely exactly what the game needs, and I think this is the way for the future as well.
Loot is legitimately buffed quite a bit, and players in ranked are treating the game like an actual extraction shooter now instead of a Battle Royale. Loot the POI you spawn at, maybe rotate 1 more time to another POI, complete any event that's available in your area, and then look to get out. Because the ground loot you pick up is actually good enough you dont really need to go hunting teams.
Sure, PVP still happens and should happend if/when you do come across another team. But its a lot less rare as everyone is legitimately focused on looting an area instead of just hunting.
I think this should honestly be the future of the game not just for ranked. Ranked needs to be absorbed into the normal way we play the game, loot needs to be buffed significantly on all maps to the same Cryo logic being applied right now, and then your rank in the game can also opperate as a way to filter matchmaking and protect the worst players from the best players over time in a season.