The plateau of 1500-1650 MR

I don’t really know what I’m expecting to hear in the responses as I kind of already know the answer which I’m assuming is play better people. I guess I just wanted to vent a little. I play Akuma. I spent a good amount of hours playing street fighter and have been playing fighting games in general for years at this point. I’ve always thought I understood these games more than most people. I frequently watch replays of losses and I do spend a lot of time labbing my own character and occasional matchup specific things if I keep struggling with them. However I see people that I know don’t do as much as I am that are vastly better than me at the game. That’s when I came to the realization that all I’ve really been doing all these years is learning how to play the game itself, not other people. I don’t feel like I ever lose an interaction in any fighting game and don’t know why I lost it. I just lose. I realized that if I’m playing someone that’s even a little bit solid and not preemptively taking risk all the time (that I’ve overly practiced how to stop) then the match will ALWAYS be a close match no matter the MR difference. I’m never really steam rolling anyone that ISN’T always taking massive risk and in the way I expect them to take them. Don’t even feel like I deserve to be 1500+ as I’ve not outplayed anyone. I’ve just ran my offense off of my opponent not wanting to be solid. Sorry if this is long, just a discouraging revolation I had.