Thats a very good point rotewand, which is also the reason why i dont play Small Earth Auto Dist anymore.
However, just because you have shitty starts, doesnt mean that your opponent has good starts. For example, in the last game you linked you could have deployed full to Africa and moved that army up to North Africa where you would have been able to break his Europe. Of course, that still doesnt guaranty you will win, but it would have allowed you to break his Europe.
Small Earth 1 Wasteland (the 2nd QM template you unlock) has manual picks, which means that you can control where you start. Of course, with manual picks its important to make enough picks, so 4/4 and not the minimum 2/4, otherwise there is a big chance you will end up in a random place. Also note that the pick order goes just like the move order in normal turns: ABBA(ABBAABBA, etc). So if you dont get your 1st pick, you will always get your 2nd and 3rd picks. You can use this to gain intel on the position of your opponents.
As a community we do recognize that this game has a very steep learning curve. We have tried to get new players more engaged with the community where they can learn the tips and tricks you need to turn a game with an unbalanced start into a solid victory. Sadly, these efforts have (on a large scale) always failed.
If you have any ideas on how to improve this, please do share! With regards to QM matchmaking without going too much into details: The system tries to match you with an available player closest to your rating. If no players are available for a while, it will broaden its definition of "close", which is how in very extreme cases, you can end up fighting players with 300 times your rating. The system is made to create games within a reasonable amount of time, and not to create games that are the best match in terms of skill.
However, this is specifically about cheating. When you look at wiki about cheating (
https://www.warzone.com/wiki/Cheaters), it tells you to review the history, and points out what to check for. While we aren't hating on the claim "game is garbage" (cause we've been there, and the first 50 or so QM games you play will suck), we did trigger on the "full of cheaters" part without any support to that claim.
Anyways, this essay is already too long, so I'll stop tying now.
TL;DR: Learning curve is very steep, game hard for newbies, QM suck, ask community for help if confused.