I'm not sure if anyone else has run into this; but I've been finding a lot of preformed brand new level 1 crews in my matches.
I suspect that it's because if you use the new feature to form your crew first before going into a match it won't place you in a beginners match.
If this is the case; perhaps Muse could make it so that if all players are below level 4 then they will be placed into a beginners match. This way they don't keep getting put into matches where an entire ship has ragequit due to the strength of the opposition.
This actually just happened to me. The entire opposing team came into my game with two separate preformed crews after my opponents left and it was everyone's first game. Hopped down and trained naturally but otherwise it probably wouldn't have been the best way for them to learn the game.