If you quit after a teammate first leaves a ranked match, you still get a cooldown as well. This has to be an oversight from the devs. You can’t expect someone to play a 2v1 all the way to the end. It’s a waste of everyone’s time, because even the other team will be begging you to quit.
I’ve seen other people complain about this on Reddit and Steam forums for more than a year now. I’ve reported it here before but no recognition from the mods/devs here. There is another report of this bug in this forum. Why hasn’t this issue been fixed?
There are tens of such reports on Reddit. Here are some:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/15lnq4j/fix_multiplayer_cooldowns/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/18mjm4z/cooldown_for_resigning_after_teammate_drops/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/18b6mgh/automatch_cooldown_for_leaving_games_when_your/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/1dsw9mh/since_we_cant_fix_the_cooldown_issue_lets_get_rid/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/vnjhwc/automatch_cool_down_is_a_joke/
https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/1adynas/what_is_wrong_with_the_automatch_cooldown/