competitive games were a mistake
during golden age of vidya, gamers knew games were for fun and multiplayer gaming was for primarily fun interactions between players. silly fun, immersion, interaction with players and world were the key words.
in comparison competitive gaming is so soulless the best way to git gud at them is grinding in the most unfun ways possible, often going as far as to studying game mechanics like a nerd and grinding aim singleplayer, min maxing builds/strats etc. hundreds/thousands of hours wasted gitting gud at beating people in children's video games and the inevitable closet cheating pandemic

look i know /v/ is full of shitters, secondaries, apes and they are often coping but they are completely correct when it comes to competitive games
they are nothing but slop