I feel like Respawn stole my money!

Not gonna lie - read part of the post / diagonally and it made me feel equally amused and sad... this is a typical example of a person that keeps this game free to play for us, who spend no money on the game. Thanks for that.

On the other hand, knowing stuff about business, marketing and human psychology I can only feel sad for people being "used" by video games these days in such way. Basically some smart people on EA side realized that people like NickBeam27​ has some "unusual" ways of thinking about BR competitive game, so they created a system that "pressed the right trigger" and got his money.

As for you NickBeam27​ I can only say - free world, everyone is used to do whatever they want especially if they have money...yet it would be more "sane" if you would:
a) spend your money on things that bring value
b) if criticizing a game then for its cheating situation or technical optimization
c) play the game to actually get good not to wield re-45s like some ancient cowboy and still get dunked on every game as soon as you face some decent players given re45 pretty much never was meta until the change it underwent recently (which in turn you are complaining about)

Apex is known for mixing and matching legends and guns to basically force people out of "one trick pony" yet people still "main" legends, guns, maps and what not... winning / evolution requires change not stagnation, always have, always will be.

Best of luck to you and thanks again for funding this game for me and others! At least this way money well spent!