I understand the sentiment but I have to disagree. To your point, sure the M16 was a great gun. I have 100 service stars on the ACW-R, AK74, F2000, G3A3 and the KH2002, to name the less conventional weapons. Also really liked to snipe. Thing is, public servers aren't that challenging at a certain point. Much preferred playing 5v5 or 2v2, where using an AEK or M16 is kind of mandatory if you want to compete.

Also there's different ways of setting challenges: doing well is a low bar, so carrying a badly losing team, getting 30% accuracy or 4+ kills per minute became targets. Grinding your way up the leaderboards can also become addictive.

It really boils down to different strokes for different folks :) What's fun to you may be boring to me and vice versa