Yeah, because they were all in denial about it and Noh called them out on it in the post:
So much so the pro’s and streamers alike went out of there way to one trick these hero’s in competitive to prove they were actually just bad and the stats were lying. What they found out was both Soldier and Genji were able to destroy teams, in double shield no less. Meta’s the shouldn’t have been good in.
Jake still has vods out there of him one tricking soldier and dominating teams to “prove the devs wrong”