I was trying to get into pavlov at one point and I was fine with skill gap, that just means I have to work harder to get better. Smaller games were better too, something like 8vs8 was too chaotic to comprehend for me as a new player. 
Reason I stopped is because I think there's a problem with connection or netcode or something, people constantly killed me without me being able to see them on my screen. It got to the point where I started doing recordings and watching through them to make sure I'm not salty. Most of the time I had enemy visible on my end for 0 to around 100ms before they killed me.
That's what killed any desire to play the game for me. But if it worked better I would definitely put in more hours into it, despite being mostly fodder at the start.