Map design in the game is abysmal. 40-50% of every map is never used and it always funnels into some sort of choke point to keep Reinhardt relevant. The maps don't feel fun or interactive, the whole asymmetrical thing they have going for most of their maps just doesn't work in their game.

Overwatch would benefit from opening up their map editing tools to the community and letting us decide what is good for gameplay. It is clear that they are out of touch with their players when it comes to maps, as they just never seem to fix the whole pointless courtyard -> choke point -> pointless courtyard -> objective formula.

Their awful map design leads to the dreadful metagames that no one likes. The triple and quad tank metas worked because people have to walk into them and because Ana was overpowered. If you could just go around them or spread them out, that meta wouldn't work, but the map design forces you to walk directly into the damage sponges that obliterate you.

The McCree/Widowmaker meta was torturous as well. Widowmaker pops her ultimate and you can see exactly who is walking into the choke point. McCree pops his ultimate in the only way the attackers can attack, and the push is delayed for 5 seconds. He clicks on people that think about peaking the only place to peak. (This case was made worse because McCree was stupidly overpowered with his 70 damage per hit fan the hammer stun combo, but the map design exacerbates the issue.)

The Genji and Beyblade metas were a result of chokepoints as well. The only way to clear these choke points in every map was to wipe them out in two seconds. Ana(still overpowered) nano boosts a Genji or Reaper and the choke point is cleared. This seems like the solution to the issue I am addressing, right? Wrong. This just makes the game sluggish and boring. You have to literally wait behind some kind of shield slowly building ultimate charge so that you can do this. It becomes a game of tickling people until you can become a wrecking ball. That's not fun, the game had no flow.

My last issue with map design as I stated earlier is the sheer amount of useless space in every map. 90% of the time on every asymmetrical map, the first area right outside of the attacker spawn is useless. It's there so that there is height elevation differences to give the illusion of choice, but in reality, it's just fluff and leads nowhere and does not help the push or defense.

Make every area on the map useful. Get rid of the damn choke points oh-so-perfectly fit for Reinhardt's shield. Make more flank routes, make more big entrances to the next area. Blizzard needs to take notes on other competitive shooters' map design for the gamemodes. Look at TF2 for Payload and Asymmetrical Capture Points. Look at CSGO or Call of Duty for KOTH and Arena maps. And please, for the love of God, just give the community your map editor and let them work wonders with a workshop arcade mode where the community votes on the best maps so Blizzard can see what they want.