Totally disagree. OG mode as extra mode - sure, whatever, don't even pay attention to those additional modes since Areans were introduced back in season 9?
Ranked... leave Ranked to people who don't cry about it. It is competitive mode where things should be hard no matter the rank because it is your top rank and to break it you need to go harder, adapt, same as in sports, life in general.
Ranked (soloq) experience is so bad all these years mostly because crybabies occupy it with 0 competitive mindset instead entitlement for X rank, vision of never ending ranking up, no hard stucking and playing same rank for more than few days aka today I am gold tomorrow I must be master etc.
Which creates never ending stories of 3 people dropping at the same point, looting (while trying to snatch best loot from his/her own teammates) and then running 3 different directions because ego and stupidity takes over. Played today with such players in current P1 game with 50% Diamonds...my teammates actively ignored any fights, I died 3 times trying to make anything possible, they just ran away as soon as people shot us, did their best to respawn me and instantly run away to do their own thing just to repeat it again and again...what a fun game, both did 200 and 400 damage, 0 kills, 3rd place somehow and ranked up to Diamond...woooo hooooo, two amazing D4 were just born!
Regarding legend bans - I can only imagine outcry of "X mains" as soon as their Wraith or Wattson is banned. See point above.
As for the distribution between gun and ability ... Axle and all the cries about her nerfs just go straight against your own logic:
IF you say that some abilities e.g. Axle nitro gate is too effective...why not use it? You can use it as any legend btw...so play your main, speed into other enemies, show off your mechanical skill and done deal.
IF you say that mechanics should be more dominant...what you can't track people while being in faster motion? Skill issue? Tracking Octane stimming / people jumppading, Pathfinder using his grapple in unlinear way to close the distance on you - no problem...but Axle or whatever else is?
I am mechanically above average and I can quite well track all of those even 1 button tap strafe abusers lose to me in 1v1 in 50% of a time... I am not complaining about any abilities, currently as in any seasons I gave it a go already D4...probably will climb even higher given D4 soloq experiment starts tomorrow, I actually think it might lead me to Masters, hard climb but more possible to do when you have only single hacker per enemy team vs them 3stacking...
Finally Apex legends actually imo is so much about map rotation, abilities, play most suitable meta / anti-meta per season and per map (yes I change my legends per map)...if that is nerfed / removed and you as much as I would like to mechanically more advanced -> just go to Valorant or CS like right now...those games are much more about skill, mechanics vs abilities, especially CS. Yet reality is - I have seen like at most 10 players in Apex LFG so far who play also Valorant, rest are afraid or on dumbsticks (that in valorant as far as I know are far from being as usable as in Apex that is basically built for it).
