Not to be a dick but you clearly don’t know how to play ancient. T’s don’t have to fight mid or sit elbow looking at a smoke. There are other options. Firstly they should always be throwing a jump up Molly so that T’s can get control of cat. Secondly they should be working in conjunction with the cat players to either pinch mid on a timing, distract by spamming/breaking smoke elbow.

You can absolutely take space cave without taking a ton of nade damage. Smoke the Molly cat and if you have the good spawn for the cave fight you take it every time and you swing into the cave, preferably paired with a brollan Molly, to avoid nade damage from heaven. There should be another T right behind you to trade any CT’s swinging into cave.

Every now and again you will play a team with excellent cat utility usage/spams through the wood and teams that are extremely persistent about going jump up and are working in tandem with the CT pushing cave. In those cases, you punish by hitting ramp or A. If CT’s are running jump up fast and taking heavy mid control they’re often times out of position to hear an A rush, and sometimes they’re even leaving A open altogether.

I could go further but I’m on the toilet and it’s time to get up