You didn't say nerf. But if you "fix" snipers to lower their effectiveness in the crucible, that's a nerf. And aim assist isn't a problem. It does not pull bullets to heads when used on a sniper. The problem is how people use snipers, tbh I don't find it a problem. People hard scope, drag scope + quick scope. Jump, slide, shade step into choke points, people will always snipe. If you completely remove aim assist or lower it for your sake, I feel like they will be unusable. Every gun has aim assist, even punches. The difference is that AA on snipers doesn't pull bullets to targets. It only keeps the reticle on the body for milliseconds longer, which happens on all archetypes of weapon.

More flinch when getting hit when scoped in while sniping. It's that simple.

then how do you propose to fix the problem?

People don't know how to use guns properly in fps. snipers are used like shotguns and shotguns have the range of snipers. When i say shotguns have range like snipers look at bo3 if you don't get it. The shotgun is called the banshee, search it up. i swear every time i see that little red flash just 4ft in front of me it's either a longbow, 1000 yrd or a yr1 ldr. It gets annoying and people start giving me bullshit just because i hard scope. If people would search up how to use a sniper properly then trials would be less sweaty. Dude snipers are not OP, not even close, it's just that they're being over used by skilled players. But the way they use them is annoying. in trials i see titans use a bubble on special and one shot body shot people with weapons of light.

My hand of judgment has been a good counter lately, but the real problem is constant nerfs to others that weren't really "op". In the last few patches the nerfs came about because of past nerfs or "over use", this cycle needs to stop. I favor fusion and they were in a bad spot for awhile, I don't want to see snipers. Plus anymore changes could effect PvE heavily, so I suggest a buff to other specials and primaries to some degree. Not big just enough to make everything viable.