I think this is silly. This Deathmatch mode is the exact same as every other Deathmatch mode in existence. Either you get the kill and get a point, or you don't and you don't. This mode was made literally to appease all the people playing Overwatch who go for most kills instead of team-based objective. Let the people obsessed with K/D have their fun arcade mode. It's not going to be a main mode where you can win or lose SR, so why try to "fix" it already when it's been live for less than 24 hours?
They're already considering Comp deathmatch, which I would think is as much as a confirmation, so yeah, I think you are gonna get SR points for it eventually.
Other deathmatch modes tend to start players off on an even footing, or atleast make it so each class has their own shot. Lawbreakers is similar to overwatch, but it differentiates itself in that each class is meant to be equally viable in terms of getting kills. That's not the case with overwatches characters, so citing every death match mode before it doesn't mean much. There's nothing, say, an orisa can do to kill faster than she can right now. Which is fine in normal objective based game modes, because she's not meant to be a primary DPS, but for a mode like FFA, it's a liability.
Look, I don't mind Death Match at all. I've played it a lot already and I'm mostly enjoying playing the game itself. But the score system is badly suited to it. And it will never be a perfect fit, no matter what they do, because OW wasn't designed to be this kind of game. But they can make it better.
And if I'm being honest, the K/D ratio obsession is why I didn't get into any MP until overwatch came around. It's Elim system is a godsend, so call by biased, but yeah, I want that instead of this.
p), hopefully it's fixed.