I've only played among us as in private lobbies with friends to have fun during the pandemic. That's why it was so popular. Would never think to play it online with strangers. There's really not much to it its just about as complex as a simple boardgame. It was just a way to easily socialise with everyone you knew even if they weren't a hardcore gamer during lockdown.

Online boardgames is a good way to look at it - https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/red-november/ and similar for example

I played mostly with friends and it was fun.

When I first got into public lobbies - yeah, everybody was a kid and the first color shouted into the chat would get kicked.

The trick I found was to switch the search language to English as I was in European servers with my native language. That way, I would match with Europeans that manually changed their language to English as well... or just british kids.

Anyways, it got way better, no more "red is sus" and then kicking without proof. But then everyone was too rude. People always got EXTREMELY angry when I found who the impostors were by either using the cameras or just remembering who was with who + kill spots + behaviour. Like, we win the game because I confirmed the users were impostors based on actual proof, then they cuss me and ban me from the lobby!

So, yeah, I kinda not played much in public lobbies for these reasons. But with friends it was fun!

Yeah, random lobbies are absolutely unplayable. Lobbies that are coordinated in some public Discord server tend to be a coinflip if they're going to be passable or not. But the game really shines when you have a core group of people to play with that all engage with it in good faith.

Of course, all those groups burnt out on the game after playing way too much of it over the pandemic, so it is what it is.