Making Soldier gay wasn't even anything to do with balancing, it was an attempt at deflecting all the negative PR that Blizzard had gotten during the few months leading up to it in the wake of the Diablo Immortal shitstorm and that "Ellie" fiasco.
Well there goes another “TF2 killer”. It’s actually kind of sad how hard they’re trying to stay relevant
Wyatt Brown
Andrew Nguyen
TF2 didn't need to be killed. It committed suicide.