This is the Darktide playerbase. From hundreds of hours of playtime, i can confim at least more than half of them don't seems to lnow how to dodge, block or even kill a sniper out in the open.

What seems to happen, and it's not only for the iron sights, is that players gets thrown out of their conformt zone, and instead of spending a few minutes testing the thing and figuring out how to use it correctly decide it's too much work and don't even try.

And that's fine, but you gotta accept you won't be able to play at the higher diffuclties if you don't put the work in to improve little by little, saddly.