Am I getting worse at Street Fighter 5?

I had a big essay here, but I think the following post helped me realize my problems.

Thanks again

Im playing sf since 2008 and Im still struggling to get into gold so… yeah, scrub who learned to love the game anyway.

And playing Gief so Im probably a masochist too…

But what I guess happened too you is a change in mindset. You tried to learn and improve at first which enabled you to climb fast.
Then you started to care about points, what happend unconsciously is probably like this:
“Im almost gold, obviously Im good enough to stop improving, now I must grind points”
… that’s poison

You’re right. I thought that I could just get that rank really quick…and THEN I would get better again!

Thanks for the advice.