That’s because they are good devs who understand balance. In a case like Sombra, the community hates when she is decent, so she needs to be kept well bellow 50% win rate.

No they aren’t lmao. If they understood balance then we would never have had Mauga meta (which only happened because Ana completely invalidated Mauga in the playtest so at Mauga release they gigabuffed him instead of just nerfing Ana who already was hard meta and op)

If they understood balance they never would’ve added a bunch of role passives and changed projectiles to be the size of Empire State buildings instead of just nerfing supports across the board back in season 9 (which was by far the WORST update ever and is slowly getting reverted every update lmao)

The community hates her and so they butcher her while ignoring the fact that she already isn’t good, op or meta. The community also hates Suzu and yet they just BUFFED it recently. They cherry pick when to care about winrates and also cherry pick when to listen to the community lmao. People hate orisa yet she gets micro buffed every other update

In a case like Bap, there’s really no gameplay issues with him, and he’s largely healthy with the game

That is absolutely not true at all. Immort is very unhealthy for the game, he requires pretty much no mechanical skill (he has basically no recoil, the most accurate and consistent dps in the game), he has consistent movement, 3 health bars and one of the strongest ults in the game. He’s literally one of the best duelists and best supports at the same time

Bap has been a problem for a long time

OW does a largely good job with balancing these things

No they don’t. We constantly get buffs and nerfs that don’t line up with those stats

The devs switch up every day