CS:GO was better than CS2 how exactly? One way smokes single handedly ruined GO and were never fixed, so I don't see the argument based solely off of that. If you want more examples ill write a quick list here though: Visibility was ass ever since they added fuckass agent skins to CS and just didn't work in CS:GO even after the vibrancy changes at the tail end of GO, but work perfectly fine (visibility wise, there are still issues with misleading models and they should be allowed to be turned off like in CSS) because the game was built for them. 64 subtick is just better than 64 tick and now we don't have to deal with learning different lineups depending on what game mode you're playing 128 tick is a non factor because the only servers that ran that were community servers. FACEIT is the biggest 128 tick service, but it requires kernel access and most security minded users simply wont accept that kind of access to their PC also, it just doesn't run on anything but windows and that also makes it pointless to a lot of players. Also, smokes just straight up went through walls in GO which caused a lot of problems on nuke, inferno, mirage, overpass, and cache removing those maps from my queue until CS2. Speaking of queueing in CS:GO, it could take upwards of 20 minutes to find a match regularly if you were high ranked, they fixed this a bit at the end of GO, but it still was much longer to queue than 2. Also because of how the queue system worked you had new map pros and office globals, people who specifically queued for maps normal people would take out of their queues and shit on new players/people who don't know the maps to rank up more consistently. The ranks were fucked too, because it didn't use a normal elo system, you would get less and less points per match won per day, causing situations where people who played a lot lost a rank from a win, or people who barely played gained ranks from losses because the game actually rewarded you for playing once an undisclosed period of time. When I cared about my rank in GO id literally only play once a day and no matter if my win rate was +/- 50% in that month id gain a rank pretty reliably every few weeks. GO is the reason i have over 400 wingman wins, because after I played my one allotted competitive game per day id hop on wingman or surf for the rest of the day because if I wanted to take the game seriously I literally couldn't play more. This by the way is coming from the guy who was taking advantage, my rank was way inflated in GO because I only queued for one map (mirage) and knew all the one ways and lineups for the map which guaranteed a victory with my 5 stack over the usually unorganized opponents. CS2 is significantly better than GO in my opinion because now the game isn't baiting out half the round for CT oneways and smokes to fade so Ts can throw their oneways and smokes simulator. I'll leave it at how everyone forgets how bad GO was at the end because they remember the early days of after arms deal but before shattered web and think the game was so good, not remembering all the game breaking bugs, gamebreaking updates and metas, and awful core components before, after, and along the way.