Why is nobody on this sub mentioning the biggest change in 4.0 patch?

Knifing walls now have instant feedback when slicing up walls (predicted on the client side)

Most of you know that so far this was the most reliable method of checking whether the server will act like it's in your basement or in the other solar system.

If there was a delay of sound effect and marking your knife leaves when hitting the wall, you could expect to get one tapped as soon as you make contact with the enemy, and have a game that feels like playing vs prime Astralis in general.

If there was an instant feedback when it comes to sfx and vfx when you knife the wall you would have a fair game (from your perspective obviously).

Riot timed this change with release of Apex Legends character, with no mention of work done on netcode infrastructure. Sure there will be people blaming Apex character and her slide peeks, but this was happening since beta.

I guess it's not that that detrimental, since you will find out whose side netcode gods took after a few rounds, but knifing the wall method was the only way to prepare yourself mentally and adjust your play style from the beginning, depending on who is playing home and who is playing away in this online game.

Edit: I am aware what packet loss and latency are. Packet loss is at 0% always and latency for me is never above 40 or below 29 on Berlin server (that i exclusively play on).

What I did horribly wrong here is that i failed to mention the other exreme - A fair amount of games where the very same high platinum/low diamond players that onetap me as soon as i show part of my shoulder can't shoot back. Games in which 80% of fights, regardless of mine or opposition ping, I swing and kill them without them firing a single bullet. They are unable to react whatsoever.

I'd like to believe I've played enough online shooters to distinguish when the issue lies in performance consistency and confidence of a player and when does it not. I am certain this is not the case.