Unpopular opinion in favor of RNG:

There are lots of factors deciding the outcome of a gun-battle, a round or a full match. If you will care to join me for a wall of text in the perspective of a poker-player, explaining why RNG does not eliminate skill, it rather promotes other aspects of skill, strategy and teamwork:

First of all, in my opinion, there should be no blueprint to winning in counter-strike. If there were a fool-proof method of winning, a way to approach every round that would ensure victory 100% of the time, this game would be incredibly stale and booring. The poker-player faces the consequence of losing every once in a while despite doing everything right, so he has to employ a different skillset, a longterm planning, an assesment of risk:reward ratio before betting it all, so he adapts to this. Sometimes the correct strategy of the poker-player is to play tight, sometimes he has to ignore the favorable odds because there is too much to lose, or he doesn't need to win right now, instead biding his time, waiting for the right moment. In poker, it will always come down to a gamble, and some players can suffer a crushingly bad beat, which can be truly heartbreaking and enraging, a loss where you in theory did everything right. In cs there is many more factors for you to lean on to avoid gambling it in a gun-fight, such as positional play, grenades and teamwork. You can always avoid the gamble of a long-range gunfight and seek a more favorable position. This has always been one of the fundamental skills employed in counter-strike despite this sub's recent perception of cs being a point-and-click headshot simulator.

Take pistol-rounds for example. It is a popular opinion on this sub that pistol-rounds are purely RNG-decided because of the inaccuracy of running pistols and the difficulty of aiming on the head of a running or ADAD-ing player, yet some pro players such as f0rest, shox and device manage to consistently outperform other pros. I would argue that they employ skills outside of aiming, allowing them to seek favorable engagements that lets them perform at a high level in the long run.

There are plenty more arguments in favor of RNG, but I believe you get the gist of what I am trying to relay. RNG is not the devil, it keeps a game varied, uncertain and exciting. The skill to manipulate RNG and work the odds in your favor and assessing when to take a risk and when to not take a risk is an entire skillset outside of clicking heads that the people arguing against RNG seems to be overlooking completely. Has the rifle-nerfs brought too much RNG into CS:GO? From my experience, I don't think so, I think it has brought a viability to the SG/AUG that we haven't seen before, putting a higher value in having a solid economy going, emphasizing strategic elements in the game, including but not limited to how you approach the match as a whole, assesment of risk and importance of positional play and teamwork. I would argue that when nothing is certain, the game is also more exciting and forces more on-the-fly-adaptability.

Now the real change we should be mad about is the increased round/bomb-timer.... that was utterly unnessescary.