Speak for yourself, it’s completely fine for me. And the “footstep sound” patch was the worst patch of the game. They made footsteps, including those far away, louder than V1 rockets, all to appease people who a) get knifed and blame the “audio” instead of themselves paying zero attention, and b) botched audio set ups.
I hope its when they learned that changing the game to suit the needs of complainers (whaaa i only got knifed cuz bad sound!) is always a bad idea. See, e.g., “premium splits communities” leads to live service.