https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-is-going-to-start-penalizing-players-for-leaving-early/

Last week's rollout of the Apex Legends 1.1 update caused some brief moments of stress for players who logged into the game and discovered that their accounts had apparently been reset. It was, fortunately, a relatively simple problem to correct with no long-last consequences, but it wasn't the only thing that went wrong. Some players also noticed the appearance, and then sudden disappearance, of a "leaving early" penalty for players who bail out of a game too quickly. 

It happens sometimes when impatient players get knocked down and don't want to wait to see if their teammates will (or can) revive them. But I've also had a few instances where a random matchup hurls a few obscenities at me at the start of a match and then immediately disconnects because I chose the wrong character or didn't drop fast enough. Both situations are annoying: My squad is left at a serious disadvantage while the leaver gets to go be a jerk somewhere else with absolutely no consequences whatsoever. It's a dick move that should carry penalty, and at some point it will—just not quite yet.