Sym’s head is massive and it should have been reduced years ago when they changed her weapon to require aim.
And now that damage creep is through the roof in this game, she can never even use her beam without instantly falling over.
They need to revert the hp nerf, it was the glue that held her kit together.
Oh, definitely. Symmetra’s got an effective tank range but with a teleporter instead of HP. Nerfs and buffs aside, it’s just a bad kit. Period.
Its so funny that you describe her issue as this because its entirely true.
The 3.0 rework traded her survivability and staying power (275hp and Photon Barrier) for a team TP gimmick that people in ladder never could get consistent usage out of.
Without that extra 75hp and Photon Barrier, she is just a terrible close range DPS hero, while Blizz has done exactly nothing to make her damage longer ranged.
And then her damage has been utterly demolished over the years for cosmetic/minor buffs.
And yet for some reason it feels like the devs just hate seeing the sight of her. If the pros ever utilize her kit they instantly nerf her for the rest of us, despite her being the lowest picked dps hero!
And then there’s heroes like Sojourn who are clearly overtuned on latter, and the pros all use her nearly every game, and yet they just ignore her…
The problem is you got pros that get her to work in a live streamed setting and that is used as a metric to validate her underperforming state.
Exactly what happened to Sombra until they finally admitted she needs the ability to stand on her own.
I’m not a fan of sojourn, but she’s nowhere near as overtuned as symmetra. 
I hate the sight of both, myself. 
About the only time SYm does well if either the enemy team are complete morons and ignore her, or her entire team basically pockets the Sym.
Mercy and what ever else help the other support can give combined with Zarya shields etc.
Exactly.
Then they clip the moment Symmetra gets Level 3 charge, kills one and basically gets assist credit for a teamwipe.
Then they tell Sym mains:
“You just need to know how to play her.”
I used to enjoy hunting down the Sym’s shield generator in early days of OW1.
And when you had a friendly Sym with a shield gen up? Oh, Tracer was about to have a fabulous time.
My favorite is where the enemy team just ignores the turrets and slowly the 3 turrets melt the entire team… The same turrets that die in like 1 hit from nearly any attack are “too OP”.