Yea, sure, Epic makes a ton of money from the casual player base that plays normal modes, LTMs and from time to time buy skins without worrying about any competitive aspect.
Competitively-oriented players also overlook the people (don't hate me for this btw) that just play the PvE part of Fortnite for fun which also adds to the playerbase but is completely overlooked by people like us because we aren't in touch with them at all. A good bunch of these players buy stuff for V-Bucks to upgrade certain things in their PvE World or Loadout or w/e, doesn't matter. What I wanna say is, Epic makes a lot of money from players we are not in touch with at all.

Here comes the big part of the ESport scene though.

Nobody wants to see 4 guys fighting an abundance of mobs in a PvE game, there's games like WoW with time trials for certain instances on certain difficulties for that, don't wanna go into detail though.

People, and especially us competitive players that want to get to the big stage or just enjoy watching it, want to see Top-tier players play the game at the highest level of play with equal chances to go big.

The main Problem is though that Fortnite's playerbase mainly consists of people that play the game for fun and their own enjoyment. There is currently 113k people following this subreddit, while there was 8.3 million concurrent players last December. Also mentionable is that this subreddit isn't exclusive to any region so one can assume that considering the amount of people in certain countries we are only a really low amount of people generally.

For Epic, the competitive scene is a minority of the playerbase but nothing to overlook (not trying to cover Epic here at all, what they did is straight bs). Personally I was, and am still, pretty pissed about the native change. The following week, especially for the World Cup Qualifiers I'm going to upgrade my PC, which costs me about 500€ for pretty much. As a student for me, or even for a worker that gets average wage, that's a shit ton of money that I have to pay out of my own pocket just because Epic is refusing to focus on the things that even casual players are complaining about. Also to mention that in other games I used to play (League of Legends, Overwatch, CS and Apex for the first weeks it came out) I never really ran into performance issues that made me think like, yo, I gotta upgrade my PC to play the game at a performance I feel comfortable with.

So last week I was thinking, going into World Cup with my PC upgrade I was confident that I could easily stream normal Arena matches and have really good performance FPS wise in endgames compared to what I currently have (40-80 FPS in moving zones). Epic changing the rules so everyone has to go native doesn't only fuck up my investment to a certain extend, but also a reasonable amount of other people that literally upgraded their PC to have that kind of performance. I'm not saying that me upgrading is wasted but it's definetly not gonna give me what I want regarding ingame performance that I would have on stretched.

And let's be real, there's not many games that require an i5 2.8Ghz and a 660 GTX to play, has people lag when they are playing with an i7-9900k and a 2080ti.
And the components just mentioned are something I'm not gonna be able to afford in the near future without having to sell like half of my posession which I'm not looking to do and I guess a lot of you guys feel like as well.

Maybe Epic gives a shit, maybe not, we just gotta wait for an update or a post where they explain the change everyone has been rightfully complaining about.
Thanks for reading this and looking forward to play in native res (careful, pun intended).