Well, found a new issue, though at least it's not a fatal crash this time. Every lobby I see is titled "Casual Matches - Beginner", and since I feel like I'm at a point where I wouldn't belong there I figured I'd host a new one and call it "Casual Matches - Intermediate". Name looked normal while I was in the lobby, and the mix of players I got was inconclusive - some seemed like newbies, others well above me. Once I felt like taking a break, I exited the lobby... and then looking at the list of open lobbies I saw my own name and avatar on a lobby titled "Casual Matches - Beginner". Reentered it to take a look, and indeed it was my lobby with Beginner now shown. Tried taking another lobby and then leaving after one more game just to double check that I hadn't just put the wrong name in, but indeed it was turning Intermediate into Beginner again, and showing me Intermediate while I was initially in the lobby only to transform into Beginner after I left and reentered.
I'm not entirely sure whether it's my client seeing all lobbies as Beginner regardless of what they actually are, whether it's sending Beginner regardless of what I input, or both. I think it might be the former since I've yet to see a single lobby with a different name, but I kind of don't want to keep poking at this bug to confirm this in case it is the latter or both and I end up contributing to that "beginner lobbies don't have beginners in them" problem - I already feel guilty that I might have accidentally done that for a while!
Also, very minor graphical oddity, compare the colors on pings in these screenshots: 1 2
I'm not entirely sure whether it's my client seeing all lobbies as Beginner regardless of what they actually are, whether it's sending Beginner regardless of what I input, or both. I think it might be the former since I've yet to see a single lobby with a different name, but I kind of don't want to keep poking at this bug to confirm this in case it is the latter or both and I end up contributing to that "beginner lobbies don't have beginners in them" problem - I already feel guilty that I might have accidentally done that for a while!
Also, very minor graphical oddity, compare the colors on pings in these screenshots: 1 2