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In the hands of a skilled player the weapon with the highest DPS will always be dominant. If you gave a very good player who knows the recoil patterns of weapons a maximized HAVOC, he'll likely win a fight against you who has an R-301. But the majority of Apex Legends players are average at best. So the HAVOC sees little to no use anymore.
Balancing is not just about top-tier players. If you were to balance around that bracket alone, weapons like the Havoc or Devotion would need to be nerfed for the DPS alone. Balancing is about the lower brackets as well. And this is where the Spitfire found (and still finds) the most use. To me - admittedly - it's harder to hit with an R-301 on medium ranges than with a Spitfire. The slower fire rate makes the slightly bigger recoil almost redundant and makes more accurate and consistent shots over medium ranges. Is that bad? Not directly. But the developers have to consider the usage of other weapons as well. And within casual games I encountered way more Spitfire users than any other weapon. Well, R-99 also found a lot of use, and surprisingly Mozambique as well.
The Peek-and-shoot tactic is the safest to use survival-wise. It makes weapons like the Wingman excel. By minimizing the time the enemy can hit you, while also maximizing the damage you can deal within a specific period is a trade-off way more valuable than sheer DPS. A player with a Wingman would win against someone with a havoc if he had cover to use. In else case - given both are equally skilled - the havoc would win.
Back to the original point though, the Spitfire was very overused in the low and mid-tier bracket. Yes, to a skilled player the Spitfire is trash. To a skilled player even the EVA-8 or Mastiff are trash. But to the average player, these weapons are the most viable options for how easy it is to use them. And once a weapon provides both sufficient power AND easy usage, that's where a weapon falls out of balancing.
And yes, low- and mid-tier brackets are those brackets which are the most important to maintain.
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