ikinclark561it sucks how difficult it is to play a game of sixes when you want to. Overwatch, Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Apex, Valorant. all of these games put you in a match never longer than 3 minutes after you press play, and the experience you get is no different from the experience the pros get. the only difference is the players, which thanks to MMR are attempted to be matched to your skill level as closely as possible. compare this to TF2 where, if you decide out of the blue one day that you want to play a game of sixes on your favourite class of soldier, you have maybe 3 options. join a tf2center (could take upwards of an hour depending on the time of day, and tends to be a subpar missmatched experience), merc for a team in a scrim (requires you to only play during a time period of 7-9pm, if you even find a team that needs a player), or add up to a double mix (you have to know someone to invite you to the server and the server owners have to let you in, requires you to wait for 11 other people to also decide to mix). the alternative is pugging, but the pugs are dead. so you decide not to play tf2 competitively. repeat for 1000 other players and this is why the league is dead.
You compare new games with 100x bigger player base and professional esport scenes to old grandpa tf2.