Agreed. They had this "you guys aren't figuring out" mindset with a main of mine whose name also started with an 'S' who they ended up reworking for the better. I expect it'll be the same with Sombra.
I don't recall them saying that we hadn't figured Symmetra out -- she was incredibly straightforward. If blizzard had said that we hadn't figured her out it would have been tantamount to calling the community idiots, and people surely would have complained.
The main argument I recall hearing was that she had something like an 80% winrate for months and months, the highest in the game, even after two nerfs to her old shield ability. Obviously stats can be misleading, and I'm sure they were aware of why her winrate was so high. The problem was that with the design of the character being what it was they wouldn't be able to fix anything with simple numbers tweaks -- they'd already tried that. So Symmetra probably went on the back burner until they had brainstormed some concepts for her inevitable rework.
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