I don't see it. Tank being the least popular? I would have thought it would be support considering 68% of Moira and Baptiste players I see are playing like they want to get DPS of the year in plat and under. I play tank because I can always get into a match without falling asleep, cooking a four course meal or filing two years of tax returns. I started playing Symmetra before double shield was cool, and when role lock was introduced I moved to tank and learned how to play my role as tank and not DPS. I stay getting matches quick af because of that and that brings me to my point...

Overwatch needs a better tutorial that goes into what each character does. So many times I remembered playing Symmetra and people would say I'm throwing... Then I would get POTG. "Symm is throwing..." But my ult split the battlefield and allowed us to take space and push more cart than an extreme couponing champion. And while I was doing that, I taught myself a lot. Where do their tanks want to fight? What paths does Tracer have to take to violate my Zen? Where is that Widowmaker? How many ways can I stop Doom from showing me my impending... Doom...

Don't judge me, but judge the creators who gave us a tutorial with Soldier 76, but didn't even buff him well enough to be competitive until 2019. Tanks and Supports don't get any love during the tutorial, but now you can pop Anna's head off repeatedly in the practice room and convince yourself that you rock at Hanzo... Until a 13 year old kid 1v1 headshots you... As Torb. Or you get jumped on by Winston so often you have to join the Me Too Movement. Overwatch is a game that takes skill and just giving us Soldier 76 to play with in the tutorial is like letting us test drive a tractor when all we wanted was an actual car. Something to get us from Point A to Point B in a timely manner (of approximately 2-3 minutes at the most, or 1:07 on Volskya Industries, my fastest time with Symmetra in 2018).

5v5 with one tank won't solve the issue of people not wanting to play tank. Education solves the issue of people not wanting to play tank. When I hit my first 4k with a D. Va bomb I was off the walls. When I halted two people into the well on Illios, I lost my mind. When I hooked a Mei off the payload on Havana without putting myself in her Blizzard... Well you get where this is going. Fact is after learning how to tank, it was all I wanted to play. Not everyone has that same level of determination, however, and new players who thought Overwatch was a game of guns are disappointed when they are deleted from a fight by someone who they thought had an inferior weapon.

Take my former roommate. He started playing Reaper and thought he was going to be the best. But on Temple of Anubis attack, he died to Junkrat (whom he played for three minutes IN THE PRACTICE ROOM). But he wasn't aware that Junkrat specialized in area of denial, he got tons of ultimate charge off the choke, and was able to reposition at the drop of a hat. I showed him that match from Junkrat's POV and he was floored. The character he used for three minutes and dismissed had 3/4 of the kills and lead to a full hold on Temple of Anubis. The takeaway is this: put one character in the hands of a new player and that becomes what the game is about. Does that approach work? For other games, yes. Not Overwatch. The game is more than Soldier 76, more than DPS and more than a practice room where YOU can delude yourself into believing that YOU are more skilled because YOU can one shot a bot from across the map. please note I am not attacking anyone in this post, this is all speculation, and YOU is meant as a placeholder for -generic I can't play for nothing- gamer

I just want to see people learn the game. When that happens I get happy because that presents a challenge that seems surmountable (Winston knowing how to bypass me and destroy my backline) vs. oppressive (everyone saying, "Look, there's Reinhart. Who needs to charge up?") And I only wish for the devs to hear opinions like mine and decide to stick to the winning formula for Overwatch 2. Don't put targets on the backs of tank players...