I did this in my final match last night ... potato team with zero coordination and got a few levels in assault / medic. As soon as you enter the CZ, you're already in the black for cash and, as you say, it can be fun scavenging some high tier equipment from fallen enemies.Yea it's simply not worth persevering with a potato team.
My new thing it's kinda fun actually, when you first join, mid match, just take the free gun plus parachute and drop in.
If it becomes apparent it's a potato team either change team or quit and join another server - you've not lost anything.
If not if can be fun following people around and scavenging kits, I've ended up with quite a lot of different stuff I wouldn't normally have.
To try and balance things they should give some kind of slight boost to a losing team with a sliding scale, so maybe 10-20 tickets nothing, but then 20-50 some kind of economic boost, maybe a discount at the vendor or something like that, nothing major though, and if your team is 50+ tickets behind the others then it gets more significant.
Btw, I think there is some sort of economic boost already implemented. I've had several matches with potato teams where the vendor offers a 10% discount on gear. Not sure what the criteria is, but in each case the team has been losing heavily.

