Spud the skill level of Plat mains in JP goes from bad to good, there isn't any A+ Plat mains.
Of course everyone will suffer the same problems with the same characters it's part of the design.
If people won't respect you then stagger and use frame traps.
Plat has decent frame traps to fish out hits so it's all good.
I was demotivated at first because Skye kept counter picking me with Ragna but eventually I leveled up and got passed that.
I still don't like fighting Ragna though.