I understand this. It doesn't make it any less annoying though. I'm frankly sick of running into a team that just pops their bubble and Kraken over and over. It's just not fun to play against. Invincibility buffs are silly.
Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as dismissive. I can understand your frustration. I really love this game, but I think it has kinks to work out for sure. Sometimes people get specials way too early in a match, and that can be really frustrating.
Personally, my biggest issue with the game right now is matchmaking, and how they divide up teams. It's been way too common for me, where matchmaking will put all the low levels on one team, and it makes no sense, when they are playing with levels 14-20. I know that your level in Turf War doesn't = skill, as a bad player can be 20. But at least in my experience, usually when a team gets all low level when playing high level, they get rolled hard.
I guess in general, my experience with Splatoon has been that, really close games don't happen as often as I would like (although Ranked kind of fix's that), and a team usually wins substantially with the other team getting crushed. And usually that team has two or more players doing 200 pts each.
All this said, purely anecdotal experiences. And I know nothing about matchmaking balancing. It's just been my experience.