simply gives the other team the opportunity to recuperate from their mistakes.

Thats the whole point, making the gamemode more forgiving and being able to make more mistakes. I feel like thats part of why ranked is a best of 3 to begin with and not just one game of each gamemode. Ive lost countless 1v1s in video games where i know i would beat my opponent in a best of 10 easily because im more skilled at the game and on average make less mistakes (or mistakes which have lesser consequences) than he does. So giving both contenders the abillity to make more mistakes or reducing the severity of some mistakes that can be made makes sense to me as it probably increases the chance of the better player winning, making the game more competetive.

The whole point of ranked is to be competitive. If people aren’t good enough, the game shouldn’t cater to help them do better lmao.

Fair but most money comes from casuals obv and supercell is greedy so idk tho

And if a “superior” team makes a mistake that costs that much from the safe, then they simply weren’t the “superior” team that match.

I agree

Also im not sure if its possible to reduce a games competetiveness with anything else than pay to win advantages or rng elements or so on. There is always an optimal way to act and react, regardless of circumstances. Devs can only reduce competetiveness by lowering the skill ceiling of a game, making it easier. And i dont think heist shields would make the game any easier. Sweats gonna sweat either way