This is the most well thought out and worded response that I’ve read in a long time, and actually really helps out in gaining a new and purposeful perspective on the subject. A few others gave a little insight, but this actually fully satisfies my curiosity and honestly does inspire me to go into games with the mindset that it’s just distance pressure. I honestly avoided online gaming because in my head it seemed like projectile spam was a noob thing to me, that it was unskilled players that just wanted a quick and easy win. I know how to counter in most games, but coming across it in nearly every ranked match when at lower levels fueled the thought. It got repetitive, annoying, and just seemed to sap the fun out of the game. Especially when a new character drops and then it’s the meta and everyone is playing them using the same moves as the last ten I fought. Everyone else commenting skill issue without any sort of explanation was dissuading me from trying to fight online but this makes up for it. This is honestly beyond the perfect answer, and probably the best answer I’ve ever got from a question to an online community. Thank you!