All of this is things that were warned about in the feedback leading up to the hotfix.

that they would become safer due to being unable to counter snipe effectively, would still be in the red line,etc.

there will be red line snipers as long as there is a red line.
because the problem is twofold.

1.there are far too many of the best positions in the red line with far too many maps with no real spots outside red line areas at all.
2.there are some players that are only using the red line because they don't like being killed. - no amount of range nerf is going to make this type of player leave the red line.

with the first,
the reason for the range nerf is to try and let us use these spots without it being impossible to kill us from outside of our red line.
in other words to make us vulnerable to players that want to actually deal with us, without them needing to suicide.

with the 2nd sad but true... at least now they are easier to snipe and they can't rely on their heavy suits to protect them from losing their thales anymore.

being productive

I'm starting to think both casual players and devs don't care anymore for actually treating the issues of this game. You can simply see nearly every problem with the game simply by looking at the guns, some suits and scout players especially. While random stat changes are being brought up. No one seems to care for the fact that ADS are still invincible, Snipers can still play with high reward and no risk, scouts are still more powerful than a majority of suits, and other things mainly because this game is team based and none of these things even have roles for a team.