I understand that when the game is looking to add a player in a hurry to balance sides then it’s not going to be ideal, but it does seem that there is just no value at all placed on the relative strength of the players you’re adding.
The situation in the link below is something that happens way too often for it to be coincidence and causes me to wonder if they even look at your skill level before Jipping you.
https://app.halowaypoint.com/en-us/#Halo4/L0RINDA/home/match-4f37c8bd2947707a
It’s clear what happened here, a reasonably balanced game where a player dropped out (and this was a very late add too, something like 290-200 when I joined.
It didn’t impact the outcome, but only because I pretty much hid from everything so the team could win. If I’d tried to fight fair we’d have got battered!