Struggling to learn anything in R.E.V.O, let alone enjoy it

Let me preface this by stating that I've been a huge VF fan ever since I was a child, back in the 90's but I've never played any of the games at a serious level.

Right now, I'm currently at 6th Dan in Ranked but regardless of my matchmaking settings, including wanting to be queued against players of similar rank, most of my matches have been hugely lopsided as I'm almost always against players who've played VF5 as a whole since it came out and I can't learn anything against them in a FT2 set with my teeth being kicked out and being handed to me. Not to mention that the replay feature from Final Showdown is absent in Ultimate Showdown/R.E.V.O.

And God forbid I can get people to join my room in a Room Matches, let alone join one myself and even the matchmaking channel in the official Discord server is dead in the water. I really want to stick with the game, but if my only option is to play Ranked and not learn anything in the long run, then I guess I'm SOL unless there's a Discord server I can join, other than the official one.