I personally think the game is heading in the right direction slowly but surely. They’re removing more and more annoying things in the game which I think had a positive effect on the health of the game. Although I do think that they went overboard with some heroes.
Roadhog being slightly more relavant again made tanking more fun for me. Because I no longer have to avoid picking hog if I want to win. He’s still probably one of the worst tank in the game, but no longer am I outright throwing just by picking hog. On top of that, he lost his one shot combo which sucks for hog players, but made the DPS player happy so it’s a win-win.
The only thing I feel like that could be improved is the general balance of the game. Some heroes especially in the DPS roster are too overtuned while others are either only strong in niche situations (symmetra) or if you’re really good at the hero.
Hanzo and widow for example, seems good on paper because you can one shot. But most of the time, you just get out-valued by generic heroes like S76 because of how much pressure sustain damage can have over one shots. Some flankers like tracer feels a little bit too underpowered/excessively difficult to play because of how much sustain buffs supports have gotten.
I also feel like they missed the mark when it comes to Sojourn’s design. I wish her primarily fire’s projectile speed was a bit faster, because it feels clunky shooting with it. Maybe it feels clunky because of the spread instead of projectile speed? In any case, they need to make her primarily fire feel good to shoot with.
I also feel like her secondary fire still does too much damage on crit. Doesn’t it do like 195 damage on crit when fully charged? I feel like it should only do like 160 at most but with no fall-off.
Regarding supports, I still feel like giving them the support passive was a mistake especially on heroes like ana. I miss the days when I had to choose between healing myself with a nade, or taking a risk with half HP and using the nade aggresively on enemies.
There is less risk-reward decision making to be made now that you can passively heal yourself. What they just needed to do was nerf busted DPS from the beginning. Because overpowered DPS flankers and hitscans like OW2 beta sojourn/S76/sombra/genji are one of the primarly reason why supports received their passive to begin with to help them survive.
Last but not least, they need to fix the matchmaker as well which is one of the most complained about on this forum and yet nothing is being done about. They’re finally getting around to fixing that in S9 so that’s a relief.