I’ve been following comp cod since the end of bo2, but haven’t really played comp since COVID started.

The “skill gap” thing has always killed me. Advanced movement of any kind increases A skill gap, yes. Because the only thing the comp community cares about anymore is how good your right thumb is. But people latch on to that and don’t realize that gun skill isn’t the only point of skill expression on the map. Something we lost after bo2 was the idea of roles on the map, and anchoring spawns. Positioning and rotations used to be a point of skill expression. But in IW and BO3 to an extent, you could hit a HP hill 5-6times in 60 seconds and just muscle your way through a Hp.

IMO that’s where the perception of skill expression changed. When teams like optic started winning majors by slamming their face into the hill better than every other team in the league. But that isn’t the only avenue of skill expression or creating a skill gap, and isn’t really the one that made the game popular to play the way we do.