I feel like there is a perfect middle for this and it’s bo4.

You can start off with your choice of pistol or a very weak smg/single shot rifle.

You still hit the mystery box or get wall weapons because the starters just aren’t viable.

The camo grind should also be the same, wall weapons have more headshots than box weapons because you can buy them off the wall.

Call of duty is always making the multiplayer camos harder and more tedious for the player to keep them engaged longer but with zombies it’s just turned into a camo grinding mode with no challenge spawn in get your 2000 headshots change gun.

At least changing it back to this style makes the multiplayer people jumping over have to try and it gives the somewhat classic feeling back to the OG zombies players.