you can tell a solo dev because they think this way in games, it's well known that tools programmers are unofficial designers. the nature of the tools dictates what designers build, and the limits of programmer imagination sets the boundaries for what can even be done. this "there is always one best solution" stuff is hot garbage pushed by people who work in a vacuum and can't imagine their work product as anything than a frame crane measured by efficiency in the real world, the work is collaborative and the code dictates what that collaboration is

great update on apex matchmaking tests here regardless of whether you play apex, if you have Opinions about matchmaking in PVP games you should read this to understand what MM experiments actually look like