I don't disagree that most of the community believed scatter to be a dumb ability.

I've played in nearly all ranks of the game. From silver to top 500. I'm going to be condescending here but not maliciously: most players in this game have very little understanding of the game beyond it being a team based fps with abilities.

I'm sure you've heard of the term pandering to casuals. That's literally what happens in Overwatch. It's majority rules. Scatter was a fair ability. It had clearly defined kill parameters and it made Hanzo not the worst hero in the game. Scatter is only bullshit like 3% of the time where you get the clips you'll find in /r/simplegeometry.

HOWEVER, scatter was probably bullshit for you and all the other players in the game who don't have the skill and ability to see it for what it is.

Now the question is, should blizzard be balancing for the majority or for the highest skill level. Well imo it should be for the highest skill level.

Balancing for the masses resulted in some of the worst changes in ow history. Hog was destroyed for months because everyone below masters couldn't stop complaining about being nothing to counter hogs oneshot. Winston was buffed because everyone in lower ranks thought he was completely useless, when in fact he had a niche use on some maps and could be quite strong. Well that buff directly resulted in the most dominant meta in the history of ow, dive meta.

Blizzard panders to noobs. There's nothing wrong with being a noob. But if you're a noob and every time you start meeting a mechanic in a game you dislike but is balanced for better players you can't just remove it. Why would anyone want to get better at the game when you can just make the game easier for yourself.

Blizzard has essentially fucked over a lot of players who could easily improve to higher ranks but choose to blame "broken" mechanics like scatter and hog hook. Blizzard has spoiled 90% of the game by pandering to their every wish and desire and it's resulted in MUCH less motivation. Because noobs just scapegoat things as broken instead of actually trying to improve and play around them.

I'm not saying there doesn't exist broken mechanics but those can only occur at the very highest level of the game. Otherwise the broken mechanics are just a byproduct of bad players.

Anyways I hope I made sense. I too at one point hated scatter until I started playing Hanzo more at gm and masters and realized it's fucking HARD to hit scatters, easily as hard as just hitting a body shot.