It was explained plenty of times before to be honest, you dont need to look hard. I am really sorry but i am very frustrated, so after this point i might be harsh and all over the place.
Overall its not a rocket science to figure out why the game feels bad in its current state, in fact it is crystal clear, its just you guys are keep ignoring it, hoping it goes away eventually because it dosnt align with some numbers or you guys just simply dont agree with it. Or even worse, you keep listening to OWL and Top500 players who are so out of touch with whats happening in the actual game its not even funny anymore.
Its overall an awfully similar case to what happened with the WoW team. They ignored every single feedback that they thought its not important, or its just a player skill issue.
I do not understand how is it so hard to comprehend, that the overall damage, especially BURST damage is insanely high in the game right now, to the point where it means that tanking is just impossible at worst and dosnt feel good at best.
Why do you think, that there is such a heavy tank player shortage? Let me explain why, if so far that wasnt clear. We are way beyond the point of “there is just less tanks in every mmo as well so its expected”.
As a tank, i dont want to hide behind walls, peeking around corners 24/7 just so i can finally use my defenses to survive or give protection to my teammates for a critical 2 seconds before it gets obliterated if they didnt capitalize on it.
Way back when, it was the most optimal play for Reinhardt for example to let go of the shield sometimes to preserve energy in it even under heavy fire, even if it meant a few shots got through. Now its not the optimal play, its the required one even against poking damage.
Why is it, that despite a well known community sentiment that some DPS heroes are too good at too many things at once without a clear, exploitable weakness, not only getting away with it for so long, they are even buffed in top of that???
Just to be clear that the prime example for that is “Cassidy”.
Why is it, that we have plenty of other heroes in the DPS category, that are underperforming and it is proven to be in a state that players are reporting its users just for picking them FOR YEARS, FOR YEARS, but they dont get addressed in any way shape or form, not even in quality of life or cosmetic levels.
I dont know if you are aware, but in the case of Symmetra, players have been requesting her hand to be golden with gold weapons a long time ago…She dosnt even have a victory pose or highlight intro where her gun is showing up and that was pointed out and requested YEARS AGO.
Her teleporter is reportedly bugged ever since her last rework, (which was again, years ago) auto destroying on random places across all maps without even a refund on cooldown when that happens and working very incosistent overall. But hey, i guess its fine because she is good for taxi and even decent on some control maps right?
I could go on and on about how incomplete and scuffed some DPS heroes can be that could be easily solved but ignored, just out of fear that some random OWL and Top500 player might become too good at it and might be a better pick in some cases than someone in the flashy play gang.
Why is it, that despite the overall consensus and clear evidence, that tanking is just awful, it just dosnt get addressed? Here is a great idea for it, maybe make them feel tanks again. Dont give them useless damage buffs in random parts of their kit that wont be utilized more than maybe once in a blue moon in a real match environment (for example D.va remech and Rein Shatter impact)
Give them something to work with that actually helps them survive or protect teammates better, something that makes them not requiring the coordination of 3 other players to achieve something with it.
Why aoe healing is still so strong despite the universal agreement that its on the same levels of problematic than burst damage?
Why is Mercy still didnt got another rework,something closer to what she was originally? Maybe as a first step for addressing the too much aoe healing, take her spectator mode Valkyrie away and give her an actual,impactful ultimate like mass rez was. While we are at the mass rez topic, give her that dam thing back…its not hard to give it an extending range overtime, a casting time or a line of sight requirement for christ sake. I dont even mind it if its borderline unusable as long as its feels good and rewarding as hell when it actually goes off.
Why is Brig still in the state she is in? Her overall kit is so counterintuitive its not even funny anymore. Might want to full rework her so she becomes a usable and enjoyable to play even in lower ranks. How often people actually play her below GM? She is one of the most popular characters in the support role from a cosmetic point of view but people just cannot use her because she has a bad kit. You might want to adress that.
Also while we are at it, BUFF…NOT NERF every single tank hero for OW2 defense wise.
The biggest factor of taking away one tank, is not less damage going around overall, its less defense overall…
Sorry for the rant but i dont know how many times these point were explained before by not just me, but hundreds, if not thousands of other players both in great detail and just ranting. Might as well try and listen to the actual playerbase who wants to play your game but cannot deal with it in its current state, the game is dying and getting ridiculed by the entire industry because of how badly it was and still is being managed.