Imagine a world where you're 1-0 up on badlands. Would you hold for 20 minutes on their spire for a thousand pounds?
The only reason tf2 is fun to play or watch is because nobody cares about it at all. Tf2 will slow down exponentially with the amount of money on the line. That's why it will never be better than csgo or overwatch or even come close to it. At its core tf2 is a completely broken game that favours defence to a huge degree.
You already know this, but still choose to skim over it. In your perfect tf2 competitive world the game is as exciting as csgo at the top level, but the fact is this will never, ever happen without such significant changes to the game that it would no longer even be the tf2 you play.
Even l4d would be a better competitive game to fund, given that everyone played to win, as would highlander, because at least those games are assymetrical.
Given that valves game will probably involve full time viability pyro, heavy, engi, do you even really want to have tf2 be a 'true' competitive game?
Perhaps I'm jaded from having played the game far too long, but I think it's naive to even consider tf2 could ever be a success at this point, given that blizzard has made the quintessential class based competitive shooter tf2 strove to be. At this point regardless of which game is the better competitive game, you're always going to be sharing your viewer base with Overwatch. Given that game is newer and has more players, tf2 loses every time.
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Not that it even matters because the kicker is that OW is actually a better competitive game anyway because it's asymmetrical, despite having the mechanical depth of my personality.