I hate how Soldier gets away with being dreadful to fight against because of how popular he is

At this point It's been over a decade since TF2 was the main game I played, and part of the reason for it is because the most popular class is Soldier.

The guy is the most mobile class in the game and 2 shots everything that isn't a heavy, considering a barrage of splash rockets from the 3 soldiers on the enemy team didn't send you looking for a dispenser beforehand. And god forbid he has 300 HP from overhealing while giving his whole team minicrits, or is using a black box/conch.

Like, The Stickybomb Launcher or Sniper oneshoting you from across the map being bullshit is common sense, but rockets being something you barely have to aim while giving you a guaranteed kill on everything that isn't a Pyro and maybe a Heavy is just tuesday, because rocket jumping is really cool. As a scout main, even Loch n' Load one shots weren't nearly as infuriating because at least I knew the guy had to be precise.

This feeling is something I had even when I was good at the game, and the only times I felt I wasn't climbing a mountain when facing Soldier was when I played Sniper, which I think speaks for itself. I'll be probably unistalling TF2 again until the itch to play a bit comes back next year and some rounds of rocket spam in Dustbowl make it go away, but I still wanted to get it off my chest because damn does this class have it easy when I see people talking about annoying stuff in this game.