"competitive community" you refer to is 6v6 community, nice try at speaking for every format
too bad in other environments (like pubs and highlander - the ways game is intended to be played and is balanced around) demoman is not so perfect and clearly has plenty of issues
i'm still ashamed the minority of players were able to push valve to revert absolutely sensible sticky nerf, might as well just remove the class at this point, so i support this theory
educate yourself - /r/hlmasterrace
that sub reddit is a real thing. why