silence_bottomsighTempted to post just get good.
i dont really care about getting good, i care about playing with my friends. playing competitive tf2 feels like something you have to do to have a sense of belonging playing tf2 in general.
Why do you need to play competitive? Most people who have a sense of belonging usually play on the same community servers with the same people. Competitive is a pretty niche subset of communities in this game.
As an example, plenty of furries and weebs stack uncletopia together and they have 0 competitive games.