Is it possible to justify Mei not being in the ban pool for the third time in a row?

[Moth Mercy] didn't make any hero unable to play how they usually play

Ana says hi. Playing support was pretty miserable because you always needed a Mercy. If the other support picks someone else and you don't like playing Mercy, gg have fun. If your team doesn't have a Mercy and the other team does, gg have fun. Valk Mercy was ridiculously broken and fucked supports.

Brig hard countered a couple champions to the point where they were unable to be played against her, but it wasn't more than maybe 5 at the time

This sounds like you didn't play much or don't remember exactly how strong release Brig was. She "hard countered" dive heroes, and she countered every character with chip damage. Sombra, Soldier, Reaper, Hog, Reaper, Moira (iirc?), Orisa, and beams & turrets in addition to the heart of dive comps. She neutered so much damage by just existing, made Rein's lives awful, and could 1v1 a majority of characters in the game. Brig was also the catalyst that led to GOATs (even if she only highlighted the design problems w/ the game). You're severely downplaying how bad Brig was.

I agree Mei is awful and am of the opinion that deleting her would immediately improve Overwatch by a lot. But this is some strong recency bias to argue Mei is worse than both Moth Mercy and release Brig.

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