>>712423102i agree with the first two points, but, to be fair, sprays were removed because of a big drama that turned out to be false
some people started spreading rumors that if people put CP on a sign and it saves to your cache, you could get busted for it
this is false because it's stupidly easy to detect if cache files made it to the cache from the game, or if an image file was saved to/from there manually
well turns out some of the people spreading this were just covering their own asses because they have kiddie porn saved on their PC and lied about it coming from a game, other idiots believed them, journalists, as usual, got mad about something they don't understand, and back then TF2 already had like 1 guy untangling the spaghetti now and then so he just decided it's easier to remove them than to get into legal problems
now that we know it's all false they should bring them back but the reason they don't is likely simply so as to not do anything that'll get anyone's attention