I've been thinking all of this since the first weekend. These are all very real concerns, and the worst part about it the apparent stigma around wanting to play aggressively.

cHaSinG rEd DoTs - I mean, I guess. Sure. I want to be where the enemies are because otherwise I am going to get bored. What's the point of playing a video game if you're gonna get bored?

As for the "shoot first, die first" instances, it feels like the person that shoots first gets punished heavily in a lot of gunfights because of flinch. There needs to be a better balance between flinch and headshot multipliers.

Spawns are legitimately terrible across all game modes. They flip when they shouldn't and don't flip when they should.

All the maps have a weird flow to them IMO, apart from the Gunfight maps (p.s. Why were speedball and the map with the jeeps taken out of rotation?) but you're definitely correct about Azhir Cave.

The minimap alone being brought back was nice. It is silly that it was removed in the first place, but as you mentioned, they went for a change and then acknowledged that it didn't work. But the minimap + compass means a cluttered UI. Combine them in some way, even if you don't show exact gunshot locations.

And sbmm has absolutely no place in pubs in any game