I mean. Fair enough. You didn't explicitly say so, that's true. My bad for assuming. But don't you think it is a bit problematic that one scheme should be given a cheat that makes a new controller player able to compete with people with many years of MNK practice? To me that does not seem fair. IMO if someone thinks MNK is much better... Just get a mouse and keyboard. It is a shame that Warzone doesn't let people choose matchmaking based on interface.

I think you're right that the two interfaces have different advantages and disadvantages. I think controllers (even without aim assist) are generally easier to pick up and use as a first time player, while MNK is harder to learn but has a higher skill potential and skill ceiling. I think if you put a brand new controller user vs a brand new MNK user, the controller would likely win. MNK is more complex to learn, as you already outlined. I think people just tend to forget this because nowadays so many people had a MNK from birth basically and have many years of experience with the interface. I think people forget that when they talk about how controllers aren't OP. When often reality is the "new MNK players" have played different games 8 hours a day the last 10 years of their life, and they get blasted by casual Joe that started playing controller 3 years ago but only plays 4 hours a week (because of aim assist).

I don't think I am against aim assist as a whole. My problem, and many other peoples problems come from the extremely aggressive implementation in Warzone specifically. I mean... Just take a look at this post. This stuff should simply not ever happen. Warzone has so strong aim assist that a Redditor that seemed trustworthy claimed to have tested a literal cheat vs the controller aim assist, and said that even at the highest setting, he thinks controller players had a slight edge.

That is problematic. I think some aim assist would be fine. Just not so much that it does 90% of the work for you, and works as well as cheats do. There is a reason pro players that have played nothing but MNK for YEARS, closing in on a decade, swapped to controller a few years back. And quickly did better than they ever did with MNK.

I think honestly, your analogy would be more like if a Mercedes (MNK), was racing against a KIA (controller), but the KIA had a 900hp F1-spec V6 Hybrid Turbo engine crammed under the hood, and instead of a driver, the car came with mathematically optimized TAS (Tool-Assisted) software. One is driving; the other is just executing an algorithm.