Perks in comp?

I’d love to get a civil discussion going about the perks being in competitive off day one. I’ve seen a lot of posts about the perks and people seem very divided on it. Some people hate it and some people love it. I can see both sides but I’d like to spark an objective discussion about its place in competitive. Here are my thoughts for starters.

I wish they’d take things slow. I get that, regardless of which you prefer, MR is posing some competition right now and OW has to cook something big. But as a long time overwatch and competitive player, I was already stoked for map voting and hero bans. I really think they’re good additions for competitive and can handle some counter swapping and frustrating issues in the game.

Nobody has to versus widow anymore. I, as tracer, no longer have to deal with turrets and nobody needs to fight orisa for example. Simultaneously, we won’t have annoying map metas like widow on circuit royale. I wish they’d test this first. Just this change. I think it’s really healthy for competitive.

The perks on the other hand, seems to be too all in if you catch my drift. I feel like it’s too disruptive. I’m not against the idea of the perks system (I loved junks lab) but I’m just against the idea of it immediately being added into comp. In my opinion, it seems really difficult to balance. And some advocate for the “everyone is op” outlook like in MR where everyone has some busted ability but imo one of the things I loved about overwatch was this lack of “randomness” that comes from everything being OP. The game feels way more grounded when you can basically play around everything because the abilities are not TOO strong.

It also takes away from some of the “ranked-ness” of ranked. I have no idea how to describe this but basically I’ve been playing overwatch for years and years and every season I push for a better rank. I don’t want handouts from Tracer being super strong with her major perk and I don’t want snowball games from some enemies farming perks off winning the first few fights. I want to improve at the game. I feel like this reduces the competitiveness of the games.

Of course, I could be completely and utterly wrong. Admittedly, I’m generally opposed to change. This could be a blast and revitalise the game for all I know. But then again, it can’t hurt to just leave it as an arcade mode and if it’s really successful, move it into comp? It just seems a gamble to immediately put it into comp. What do you guys think?