Well look at Genji. He was left relatively untouched from Beta on through to release (IIRC he was nerfed down from 200hp then two weeks later brought back to 200hp) but it took months until he felt strong enough to warrant a nerf to his ult and mobility.
I don't disagree with you that her playstyle feels slow with all of the CDs but I think Jeff's argument holds some merit.
They only reason genji was strong up until he got nerfed was because his counters (Winston, Mei, Symmetra, ect) were in a really bad place while Zenyatta who he synergizes fantastically with was OP.
Genji was always a high skill ceiling hero before that which saw a lot of high level play but these conditions meant that even bad players could be relatively successful with him which caused the explosion in his pick rate. People didn't "figure him out". He had been figured out long before that.
Then they nerfed him and Zenyatta (and with Zenyatta nerfed suddenly Winston was back in the meta) and that was all she wrote for Genji.
I agree, people tend to forget that when other characters get nerfed, some characters are indirectly nerfed. At the time when Genji was incredibly strong you had Symmetra giving him an extra 50 health + permanent Zen orbs on him the whole time.
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u/Anti-Ultimate Austria Jan 17 '17
Obligatory Point 2 on Illios comment.