Because literally every player of every variety are attaching themselves to snipers using them as a crutch to make up for lack of skill. So why would players do this? If sniping was hard or took skill wouldn't it make sense to find a better weapon? Well guess what? Snipers is crutch weapon type now because of the lack skill to use it, so how do you fix this? Add skill add penalties add things to sniper instead of make hit boxes smaller or lowering all their stats or ruining even more perks.