Yeah I can’t say the future of OW looks bright. I mean if absolutely nothing else happens, no other new hero shooter game comes out, OW continues to update and release new hero’s that seemingly work, new maps etc. It’s still 3 years old and getting older by the day. At some point Blizzard will have to do something drastically new to keep people interested.
Simply pretty looking maps won’t disguise the fact every map remains pushing the payload or attacking a 2cp map. now I don’t think OW is going any where any time soon, even if it will continue to decline. But 2 years? 3 Years from now who knows. OW has already had a pretty steep cliff in drop off interest in the game. Even twitch numbers are misleading as a lot of people simply watch the game now, and not play it.
As for wanting to be a pro player and join OWL, it was a pretty dumb idea imo. Not being into E-sports in general but never look to getting into the current hot game, look at the future. Which I feel is why so many people love DPS hero’s because if the floor fell out of OW a lot of those skills at aiming and movement would transfer well to other FPS games.