- After almost 5k hours of learning, grinding and improving I have to say that the direction of CS2 is going downhill. It's been over a year at this point where we had no impactful updates that could potentially make the game somewhere close to CSGO.. Valve surely made the point already..

- Some of the crucial things that we expected from the overhyped rumors about the "new engine":

1. Anti-Cheat
2. Better servers (128 tick)
3. Optimization

- What we got:

1. New graphics and engine (Source 2 was released in 2015) that could work on a high end hardware but would still feel choppy. Lower end systems lost over 50% of performance.
2. FPS was higher on the first day of the release. Since then, FPS is just dropping and who knows when will it stop. Maybe until we all buy a 7800X3D?
3. A lot of cosmetic features that nobody wanted.
4. Cheaters and new profiles that abuse the whole Valves system.
5. A lot of binds and commands that we were used to (for example r_cleardecals) got removed.

And the list goes on and on..

- The only bright side that I can bring here, that keeps my friends and me playing a few games is that now we have weekly drops on wednesday. No more random drops at the end of the game like a few years before.. I guess this was purposely made to keep numbers of players still counting, otherwise we would see even a bigger number of players who are leaving the game...