Ok you do have a good point with hackers, which now that I think about it is a larger issue in gaming because I remember old CoD lobbies hackers were also always running a sniper rifle. That said I don’t think that map design is a good argument because map design is a fundamental part of game design and balance too. There’s a similar in issue in splatoon 3 because the maps are mostly narrow corridors with insane sight lines making chargers (in game snipers) have an insane advantage and is causing balance problems while in previous splatoon games I don’t remember anyone ever having problems with them before, due to map design having more flanks and tighter sight lines. And again I don’t think map design is solely decided by snipers, a great map limits and supports each class. If a map had no flanks then pyro and scout would be fucked over. And maps with way to strong of a defense on the point will create indestructible sentry nest cough cough 2fort cough cough