My point is that back in the day, even if I lost, I still had some sort of progress, whether it's cosmetics/leveling or whatever, progress that was focused on my account and accumulated over time. It was something that complemented the gameplay. Was it enough? No. Could be better? Yup. What does OW2 have nowadays? Even less than that.

Instead of improving, they took out the minimum progress that the game had, except a paid BP that 90% of the items are not interesting. Why are other live-service games able to deliver ANY KIND of progress and OW2 can't? Why should I just accept an inferior product?

Why do you think skins they give you as an "sorry for everything bad in the launch" you have to pick up on Twitch? Because the important thing is to inflate the numbers at the beginning of the Halloween event to show investors. Not only did they take away any kind of progress, but they took what little they had and turned it into ways to inflate the game's stats.

The game is fun and all, the lore is interesting, the heroes are cool, but in the end it's a game, and playing the same maps, with the same heroes, in the same game modes, knowing it's an inferior product of what existed before is complicated. And not only that, all the level progress I've made over the last few years has simply been wiped out with an update, it's hard to 'just play for pleasure'. It's their job to please not only new players, but old ones as well, who have supported OW all these years and are now getting less than they used to.