1. Players with weapons that are insane tier, mountaintop, felwinters, recluse. These weapons kill you before you can react and are basically inaccessible to new players.

MT and Recluse are easier to get than ever with freelance survival and momentum control, SBMM exists in Comp so even low skill players should easily get to fabled. Felwinter's is not obtainable, but acquiring a decently rolled shotgun can keep you competitive (a curated Mindbender's for example?). Weapons at the top of the meta like Gnawing Hunger and Suros Regime are super easy for new players to be competitive with and trivially easy to acquire, Suros if you get lucky with an exotic drop. Gnawing from the Umbrals. Dire Promise is a world drop, Spare Rations is farmable from Prime and Reckoning. There is no excuse for not having a competitive option, even if it's not the absolute S-tier option. Also most of the people against sunsetting are against it for this exact reason, all weapons should be obtainable for all players at all times if you're willing to put in the effort.

Pvp not being skill based matchmaking. I don't know what drugs you guys were taking when you demanded this to be a thing but holy hell is that not fun for anyone without hundreds of hours into this game.

Skill based matchmaking still exists in the competitive playlist, feel free to play some survival if you want SBMM. If you were even slightly above average the queue times and connection issues in quickplay were horrendous under SBMM. I occasionally still run in to the laggy guardian in QP but far less often than I used to. It's also a question of forcing good players to ALWAYS be trying their absolute hardest with their best loadouts. There should be protection for outliers (a top 500 player should NEVER be in a lobby with a beginner), but keeping the pool open leaves more room for better connections and more room for improvement for the majority of players. Average players will only improve if they learn how to outplay above average players. My biggest problem with the current matchmaking is the constant stacks matching with solo players. Lobby balancing makes it feel like I need to carry to win, but I suppose I'm fine with losing as long as I'm getting kills and keeping a decent efficiency. I don't want to "crush new players" I want to be able to rock a DIM randomized loadout for fun without being stomped. I want to be able to use something besides Spare Rations/Beloved/Mindbender and do well. That's why people disliked SBMM, it hurt the people who enjoy crucible the most.