I saw Shahzam telling it on his stream when he was watching a tournament game last week that the game is slow and boring just because of Astra and then Dapr telling the whole round has to be all about baiting Astra's utils first and only after that they can actually start the round and I also saw tweets about hate for Astra. Also eggwick has made a video about Astra being so bad for the game few days ago here's the video https://youtu.be/lLEgmEztuLo and I think he makes some really valid points

I don't like Astra for the fact that she is just too strong and her abilities have no counterplay and also that she is just better than Cypher who's a sentinel at delaying pushes at this point. She can play her own Astral board games which could actually win a round. Her smokes are way better than Omen and Brim and her other utils are even better than Cypher and Cypher's trips can be broken whereas with Astra you can only bait it and if you don't play slow you can get punished so hard. And Cypher's trip can't be deployed across the B site sitting in A but Astra can send any of her ability across the map in 1 second.

If you all have seen the video about what killed Overwatch it talks about how agents with very powerful abilites came that the meta shifted to a way that it became more of an ability based game rather than a shooter game and that the mechanically gifted players had to stop playing the game. I think Astra is the first agent that is doing something similar to Valorant because in situations win a round without peaking or even having any skill, atleast for Viper and Sova you need to learn something but with Astra even an Iron player can delay the defuse and most probably win the round against anyone by just playing the Astra minigames. Also the other issue is when she has this much value (that is better smokes than Omen and Brim) and way more punishable abilities compared to Cypher, why would anyone choose the other controllers?

https://youtu.be/DaWT1Qk6ows watch this video of how Overwatch died if anyone didn't understand what I'm saying and see the part where they talk about what killed the main purpose of the game (shooting) and turned it into something else and tell me if there's any agent that comes to your mind that can make Valorant have the same fate for me it's Astra and only Astra that pops up immediately!