Then it turns into a degenerate philosophy of pandering to whatever is popular because only their feefees matter, trapping your game into a vicious cycle of making what is popular even more popular and then your role based game enters into a dead spiral because turns out that the popular heroes are not enough to sustain the game’s gameplay.
There was no such time. People always throw the word ‘‘free’’ around but with a hero so conditional and easy to counterpick as Mei there is no real point where she was able to dominate the real game.
If you need godscans to be easy and OP to deal with a Symmetra or Mei then you are a far worse player than you believe yourself to be.
Reddit/streamers are not a lot of people, just the loudest.
The fact that this game is at its lowest showcases that the Godscan direction is not everyone’s cup of tea.