I agree that 2019 was a wrong point to pick in time, and that there have been some good changed in hero design (especially reworks for Orisa). But I don't think

I agree that 2019 was a wrong point to pick in time, and that there have been some good changed in hero design (especially reworks for Orisa). But I don't think games are "more even" now, it feels way more reliant on the relative tank gap, whereas for OW1 even with one outmatched tank the rest of the team could cover up. Tanks have such a fundamentally important role to the game that even a minor disadvantage becomes magnified when there's just one of them. With role lock, 6v6 mostly avoided the issues with GOATS, and towards the end OW1 tank pools were pretty diverse, and mostly fun to play against or with unless someone went double shield.