(credit for the art goes to Miss Yeny)

Whereas; no hero rework/nerfs thus far have taken away as iconic a piece of a hero's toolkit as Mei's single-target freeze (closest would probably be rendering Torbjorn's hammer useless through removal of upgrading turrets but even he didn't have voice lines specifically connecting to use of it in combat like Mei does with stuff like "Freeze, don't move!") so unless she were to be given another freezing ability other than her ultimate it takes away from her "identity" as the ice character

Whereas; just because of Brigitte any form of CC alone is not something to be afraid of and taking away (or nerfing so much it might as well be) a form of CC that has been in the game since launch sets a precedent that might lead to a massively lower pick rate for heroes with the few kinds of CC left as players would expect them to be reworked to remove the CC so "why should I bother learning/playing a hero who's just going to change"

Whereas; on the one hand if you remove the primary "gimmick" of Mei's primary fire why give her two firing modes at all but on the other hand leaving her with only one makes her far too simple a hero meaning high-skilled/high-ranked players won't bother playing her and she'll get even more dunked on as a hero than she was back in the day when it was popular to call her Satan

Whereas; changes like these only reinforce the ideas of some of the most toxic parts of the community in terms of what heroes are good picks

Whereas; the April Fools update proved tank!Mei can actually work (I just think she shouldn't have the scale increase she had then as it makes the game even more loosely connected to the lore if you can just mess around with the heights of characters canonically old enough to have stopped growing) and when that change happened for that experimental update, many people said not only it was a long time coming but it was one of the changes they most wanted to stick around post-update

Whereas; by having another tank hero who's more feminine and one less-intimidating-looking than D.va is in-mech it incentivizes more female players who aren't just tomboys to play a tougher role and by having her be a tank hero who's also a scientist it changes (both in terms of player expectations and where future OW2 hero design could go) the expectations of what a tank should look like even in terms of their story

Whereas; it'd be a win for plus-size representation or at least balancing out of the bad representation that is Roadhog (tankiest tank in the game being a shirtless fat guy with no armor (at least in his default look) you can imagine what's supposed to be stopping the bullets etc.) if we had a tank like her who is not only a plus-size woman but also (if she were a tank) a plus-size tank with an ability-created-barrier so her plus-size isn't meant to be what's tanking the shots

Whereas; ever since they merged the offense and defense categories there have been far too many DPSs and moving a character who could work as a tank to the tank category would help even things out

Whereas; despite some of the reclassification rumors seeming out of left field (how can Symmetra work as a healer) there's already been rumors of tank!Mei so it'd be nice to make that official

Whereas; since OW2 isn't out yet there's still time to work on it therefore there's still time for these changes to be made without feeling crunched/rushed or by surprise

Therefore; when OW2 comes out the freeze should be restored to Mei's primary fire (perhaps with another nerf to balance that out like maybe decreasing ammo so not just regarding the wall and Blizzard but regarding her very shots everything about her would be about waiting for the right place and time to do your thing) and she should be a tank hero