Rate of fire is actually something to consider though, you can't just write it off. Quick swapping loses to spamming compact ammo in many more scenarios now because of 2 tap damage buff, increased damage drop off, increased headshot range and ability to spam. This is the point of saying the game is watered down.

Again we gotta make sure we're talking about the same points. "spam to win" versus "every shot matters". Quickswapping was silent nerfed in 1.3 yet again. I think you're strawmanning arguments because I don't see a flood of people saying long ammo is "harder" to use in the sense as if it requires a lot of skill to quickswap. They are probably arguing that it requires more mechanical skill than spamming a winfield for example. The point is the game did not become HARDER, MORE DIFFICULT, or require more mechanical skill in 1.3. It actually requires less. Again we need to be arguing for/against the same discussion point.