I feel like that’s the case with a lot of multiplayer games. I get further into some of them like Arc Raiders and then I think to myself “oh yeah I’d only recommend this to someone who was willing to put in 50-100 hours to learn the game and has a lot of patience for cheating/meta/etc.” and so I don’t recommend them.

Whereas I actually think the opposite may be true of CS2, you shouldn’t recommend that because the first 100 hours are fun. Then comes the pain of knowing people aren’t better than you and are cheating.