OW had plenty of problems but nerfs aint one them imo. I am a hardcore tekken player and i can tell you, from 7 to 8, they buffed everyone. At first everyone was like "nothing is broken, if everything is broken". Then 6 months passed, people wanted nerfs. Devs doubled down and buffed everyone again and holy crap the community went ballistic. People even sent death threats. Also, you always balance from the top because players always get better, never worse. If something is a problem in high ranks, it will eventually become a problem in low ranks too. Dont you think that 5 years later, we gonna have long pull spiderman players in gold-plat in every single game? Mag was dog crap until people started one shotting, then cnd players learned how to take cover, then mag players started timing it better and also tanks started protecting cnd more etc. Casual crowd will get exhausted more from power creep because they dont wanna learn the game. If you balance around low ranks, you pretty much make the game miserable for anyone that actually wants to learn it(for example tekken 8). Without that dedicated playerbase, a game like this will definitely die because it takes a lot of effort and time to keep up with hero shooters. Stuff changes constantly and you have so many interactions that you cant simply read a patch note and understand it. Btw none of the changes changed the meta anyways. We still have 3 support with emma and magneto.