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[Roflcopter]

The emphasis is even more on aim rather than reaction time.

Well, isn't that the point? You can greatly improve your aim through practicing, but you can barely improve your reaction time.

There should be a balance between the advantage reaction time and aim gives you. It's now at the point where players with superior reaction times are barely rewarded for firing faster.

Both are skills and there's a larger difference between people's reaction times than I think you think. See Human Benchmark. From that a normal range of reaction times looks to differ by about 200ms!

Don't forget there are other elements that, hand-in-hand with reaction time, are less important now, such as awareness. Basically you're cutting out the ability to gain much advantage from suprise which is a very important element.