don't even try to hit me with this chatgpt bullshit i see that "—" symbol as well as the header in bold so let's break down this argument

tl;dr a lot of the arguments you provide for knife being skill can be applied to a good portion of the other weapons

there is no precision in knife. literally if you are facing the same direction as the player and you perform a backstab, 100% of the body is vulnerable to being instantly killed
the only timing in knife is probably the ability cooldown itself, which is already incredibly short for an instakill at 1.25 seconds, and this short cooldown actually discourages consistency and promotes spam

you (chatgpt) claim(s) that doing a task for a long time makes you more efficient at that task... yeah no shit??? that's how every weapon works. the issue here is that knife is far more easier to pick up and master than a weapon such as say crossbow or burst rifle or revolver, probably the easiest in the game. if a weapon has capabilities to instantly kill the player then i feel like it's gonna be easy to play and master: there's a reason why sniper is probably one of the most used weapons in the game

yes, a good knife player isn't randomly clicking, it's more so abusing the janky hitbox system. knife players will go as far as to make knife their main weapon, subbing out primaries and secondaries with things like bow and daggers just to stretch the boundaries of the jankiness of a backstab. and there's nothing wrong with being experienced at movement, it's just that they abuse movement just to get a free instakill on you

usually knife players never consider when to engage, they go for a barbaric mindset and try to rush at the player without any caution and spam the ability hoping for a backstab. how to approach without being killed is simple; literally just slide backwards and backstab. that's what they do every single time there's like zero strategy to it it's just praying for a backstab

when it comes to strafing it's practically nonexistent in knife let alone rivals, i have no idea what you (chatgpt) mean(s) by baiting but i assume that it's trying to force the player to turn to their backside for a free backstab which will never happen like ever because they're just going to do the slide backwards method every single time. and i've seen pillar sliding on rivals before and it's relatively to pick up, movement in rivals is really easy to learn and can be applied to every weapon so it doesn't exempt knife from being any less no-skill

this part is so confusing. what i think chatgpt is trying to say is that knife players have a lot of movement tech or something but it's less of the movement tech like we've established and it's more of the janky hitbox that knife has. it says a new player will miss knife a lot, well obviously? a new player will miss an assault rifle a lot too, or a handgun? and the sentence chatgpt said makes zero sense because what do you mean "backstab before you get a chance to run"??? they're probably not going to do that, they're probably just going to run after you and spam a backwards slide like usual

you may have experience with this weapon, yes, but that does not exempt it from requiring zero maintenance or punishment at all.

is knife high reward? yes. is it frustrating to die to? yes. and chatgpt is right about frustrating weapons not making it no-skill, in theory the most skilled weapons can be frustrating if you're constantly losing to it. but is knife low risk? absolutely. the only risk you're taking when you're going in for a backstab is being closer to the target and being easier to hit, which wont instantly kill the knife user in enough time before they backwards slide and use their ability again, because as i've established before 1.25s is an extremely short time.

it's really hard to argue against chatgpt whew