Sniper Meta mistake

I don't understand how people can just talk about how sniping has been there since day one to act as if we are exaggerating.

I have been playing since Season 0. Many of the people I have met in Apex have stopped because of what the game has become. Of course, you're in a wrong spot if you're getting shot from distance by 5 different squads. But the whole point is that it never was like that. Back in the days when we would spot a team in the distance shooting in the valley, we'd get closer. Now, my random teammates are just shooting with their Sentinel or godforsaken Charge Rifle from distance. Throughout the seasons we have also seen an increase in legends that simply promote the camping kind of gameplay like Rampart or this new legend. Also Storm Point was released, a map where in many places an R99 is just useless. And then the weapons, throughout the seasons we have seen the release of weapons like the Charge Rifle (...hate this thing), Sentinel, Bocek, Repeater and now the G7 back in ground loot. It's true that sniping has been there since day one. But since these last couple of seasons the community is being pushed into long-distance combat along with camping a lot. Apex in the first few seasons wasn't known for that. It is slowly becoming a different game. I used to tell my friends who were playing Warzone and Battlefield that I don't enjoy those games because I prefer action-packed close combat gameplay. But the only shooter I'm playing is becoming yet another one of those BR's, slowly losing its unique identity.

And stop acting like sniper meta isn't a thing, why the hell would so many people complain about it then? I'm not as pessimistic to say that the game is destroyed. It just needs a push back towards where it came from. Give us back a bit of that game we all enjoyed because of its continuous action.