Personally, i dont snipe because im bad at it. Im glad they took the special ammo away and i try and bag as many crates as i can to stop the opposition getting it. However...
Not so long ago I was reading posts about people who already had been flawless and didnt need to anymore, or had already picked up all the loot from IB and/or SRL and were going to continue doing these events just to stop other people, like me, from getting to the top tier of pvp.
To me, this is the cause of things like this. People will look for exploits, my son made good use of this one to help us complete the bounties last weekend. For me, this exploit comes way behind lag and peoples attitudes when it comes to crucible problems in general...