>>719611126
Valve was pivoting the game into matchmaking and focusing on comp to try to get a piece of the Overwatch pie and doubling down on their own CSGO pie

The people who originally made TF2 had nothing to do with MyM as they've been long gone, so the newer curators of TF2 had no fucking idea what the identity of the game was and permanently fucked it up by listening to the tiny comp community and chasing dollars with matchmaking. Comp players aren't wholly to blame because Valve is greedy as fuck, but they are to blame thinking that balancing around a mode that doesn't play like vanilla TF2 at all is a good idea.
See the idiotic "Trickle Down Balance" video to get an idea of their backwards ass mindset.