New weapons do not make the game any more fucking interesting. They make it so much less fun to play.
To put this into perspective, I would rather have completely vanilla 2007 tf2, no gunboats, no crossbow, no escape plan, than have to switch my entire loadout to counter some fuckwad on the other team. I would rather have a shotgun and a shovel. (And the old viewmodels, fuck you for changing them, Valve.)
Valve has not given a shit about us. They gave us matchmaking without taking into account what we wanted. I mean no harm to the dev team for MM, you did a good job for what you wanted for the casual community, which I have to imagine is the vast majority, but we want what we want. I agree entirely with the promod solution because Valve isn't going to budge. They have what they want with CS:GO and DOTA 2. We are just extra microtransaction money.
Also fuck you, b4nny. Stop blowing Valve, you are the front for our community, they listen to what you have to say about tf2, and I don't know if they're ignoring you, or if your vision just sucks.
ProMod. Revert sticky nerfs. Cut off from Valve. They have yet to do anything meaningful for this community.
Lange coded the MGEMod.
These people coded SOAPDM.
tsc made pugchamp/mixchamp happen.
Third party leagues such as ESEA, FACEIT, and UGC support competitive TF2, whereas Valve does not.
I want Valve to support TF2, but they aren't going to, so let's do this our way while we still fucking can.
Also, more than half of the unlocks in the rotation are so fucking bad that nobody would use them in any situation. How does this add any variety?
People are just going to flock to the best unlocks, there is no point in allowing more, especially when most of the bullshit ones are already allowed.