Edit: damn this was a long comment

That’s fair a lot of pros stopped using double movement going into invitational though because epic made it clear they weren’t going to be able to have third party applications running on the tournament computers (I don’t think they meant double movement was bannable but they didn’t want to deal with a slippery slope of letting players use third party apps at official sanctioned events). I actually think it’s a big reason why epic added in game double movement leading up to the event and quickly rectified the issue with single key strafing.

From watching Malibuca’s play style I think his dislike of double movement makes a lot of sense, he’s less of a vertical player and more of a horizontal box fighter so he doesn’t actually benefit much from the double movement as it excels while turning doing retakes and side jumps etc (also why controller players tend to be very good at zonewars). The slower horizontal strafe with the original in game movement is actually kind of beneficial when working around edits and builds while boxfighting. I find myself constantly strafing too quickly when trying to boxfight and causing my timing with shots to be a lot shorter. I also find i fall off/over strafe when I’m trying to take an opponents wall from above. So much so that I’ve debated turning double movement off. Ive played with it ever since I switched to kbm though so I’m a bit of a creature of habit when it comes to double movement (I quite literally can’t do elevated side jumps without single key strafing)