Nobody is saying that M&K is easy. You can be trash with M&K as you can be trash with a controller. One can be god-tier with M&K and god-tier with a controller.
But it's important to realise the strengths and weaknesses of each input type. The strengths of M&K are the many many buttons and the fact that a mouse is the highest precision input there is. The strengths of controller are the fact that the input is analogue (instead of binary) and that they are portable.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/keyboard-controller.html
https://www.esportstalk.com/blog/the-controller-vs-mouse-and-keyboard-debate-explained/
Since Apex is a game where different types of input are matched together, they try to ensure that each input is as valid as any other. One of these options is the Aim Assist to allow them to compete with the high speed and high precission flicks. Furthermore, I have been told that the aim assist is pretty weak compared to other shooters.
Let's also not forget the multitude of other advantages that M&K has, such as: moving in death boxes and tap-strafing. The removal of Aim Assist should also warrent the removal of these M&K only bugs (since technically neither of these were by design, they just never patched them out).
While any debate over whether there is too much / too little Aim Assist is theoretically interesting, EA and Respawn are the only ones with the right data to make any informed decision.
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