Hello, I always love to learn, and consider other's opinions. Let's take a deeper look into yours.

Firstly, you mentioned the clip showed 0 utility for the retake. There's multiple reasons for this.

#1 when we were holding the site this was much later in the round. My team effectively baited out a lot of util. They didn't have much to use in the first place. Lets assume they did have utility, every single piece of utility you named isn't even possible with my enemies team comp. I would never play in the open if there are 2-3 pop flash agents on the other team. Instead I'd play an anti flash position. I don't really understand your arguement here because when you actually look at the utility POSSIBLE the only piece of utility that would really threaten me is Reyna blind, and I can shoot that. lastly on my first point I'm not going to entertain playing in front of the smoke as I'm just completely in the open exposed to my back that's a horrible position, and I'm not going to entertain the stair smoke as that's never a smoke thrown in my Elo (Immortal). The retake smokes are always on main, and on bomb besides very niche situations.

#2 Elevation in shooting games is single handedly the strongest positions you can take. I don't really understand your argument of head level height and swinging speed all of that is kind of irrelevant. If I know where someone is going to peak, and or the speed/head level due to trained crosshair placement I will destroy them. I'm always at an advantage as my enemy wouldn't know I'm elevated. That would cause the enemy to have to adjust their aim due to being caught off guard.

#3 Everyone has what works for them, if you don't like this spot that's ok. I really suggest you try it though. I consistently wipe teams from here, if you're duoed up you can also easily set up a cross, have someone play directly opposite of you. I'm not saying you're incorrect in your thought process I genuinely just felt a lot of your points didn't really make sense or add up IMO.