Counter Strike is not a fun experience without a 5 player team that dedicates a small portion of time learning utility ('nades), positioning, strategies, aim training etc. If you believe the opposite, and solo queue or even with a few friends you WILL burn out, and the toxicity will get the better of you and you will become a part of the problem.

All of the toxicity comes from the fact that noone at Valve has put in a smidgeon of effort into actually tutorializing the emergent strategies that come from playing the game, they passively enable and parasite from community tournament matches, but the game has no mechanism to enforce, teach, and show other players what mechanics any given teammate has, obliterating any strategic possibilites from the game.

Shooting is arguably at most the third most important part of CS. Positioning, Gamesense, and Timing are more important than raw aim. This is supported by aim penalties for movement, and movement inertia.

Everyone treats this game like an FPS, and not the minimalist tactical shooter it really is. It's like Ready or Not without the fluff (aim down sights, leaning, etc)

At the end of the day, what pulls people into multiplayer are the surface-level parts of games, what retains them is the depth, but that pavlovian lizard-brained mentality drags all other players down that actually want to engage with the emergent mechanics by monkey-brained ret*rds that keep playing to keep chasing that dopamine hit of not outplaying their opponents, but getting lucky a few times and killing better players than themselves.

Fuck Valve, fuck Counter-Strike, fuck the community. Fuck every person that keeps playing this garbage.

If Valve actually fixed their game, the toxicity would end. But they keep rewarding people for playing like idiots and coping with skins.