>>1092808 (OP)
PvP in general is dead outside of very cancerous forms, and even those cancerous forms are barely functional due to how widespread cheating has become.
Arena shooters in particular are dead because, like RTS and fighting games, their developers fell for the compfag memes and completely disregarded the newcomer experience, and once they didn't become gigarich from esports money they wrote off the whole genre.
>>1364326
Most of the seething about CoD is second-hand autism that always had questionable accuracy: notice how nobody mentioned the controversy about MW2 killing LAN play and dedicated servers yet, or the removal of bots as an option for multiplayer (later reintroduced), or the killstreaks and the way they snowballed matches...
The funniest thing is, nowadays CoD is far more about movement than shooting, but in the worst way possible since it all boils down to hitbox displacement and high angular rates messing with aim assist.