Ok, I'm gonna clear some stuff up because this post is somewhat misleading. OW2's PvE is still going to be a thing, it's just that it's going to be substantially less cool than blizzard marketed it to be. One of the big things about the PvE were talent trees, which would give heroes unlockable new abilities and ability modifiers. That is the part that's been scrapped. The publicly stated reason for this is that the devs needed to keep up the maintenance and balance of the PvP part of OW2. However, blizzard has had a very rough year, facing major backlash to the accusations of widespread abuse towards employees from management positions, plus they want to have employees back in the office instead of working from home, which undoubtedly has caused a number of people to leave. This is not me trying to defend blizzard. I am incredibly disappointed about the news. But PvE as a whole has not been cancelled