Instead of salty tweet I thought I would explain calmly why I think HS has become less skill intensive, complete with ugly visuals. Let's start with what separates the great players from the absolute best players in my view: 
To properly take into consideration your opponent's deck, you need to know
1) What they can play; and
2) What their win condition is.
I remember facing elite players and thinking every turn was a nightmare because they made sure I never had a good play available to me.
1) What they can play; and
2) What their win condition is.
I remember facing elite players and thinking every turn was a nightmare because they made sure I never had a good play available to me.
Thanks to Lackeys, DQ Alexstraza and so many other randomly generated cards, it's very common now that your opponent will have multiple generated cards in hand, which means you can't play around it and just say "fuck it" and revert back to just playing your deck optimally.
Since the power turns are so swingy, it's also impossible in many cases to prepare for your opponent power turn. There's nothing my DH can do vs turn 5 Mountseller + 4 spells. There's nothing I can do with Rogue vs a turn 3 Glowfly. So you just hope your opponents don't have it.
On top of that, every deck's win con is now "do broken stuff on board and kill your opponent before they kill you", which is less skill intensive than trying to Control a midrange deck or gauging when to draw and when to remove with classic Combo decks.
I think the last point is the least discussed but it's truly important. Being able to identify different win conditions and switch from one another during a game is what used to make great players, but now you almost always have just one game plan anyway.
People argue it's meta-specific but I see a trend towards increased power level, and increase power level will always have a tendency to crowd out Control and draw-your-deck combo decks and lead to "just do your broken stuff first" kind of gameplay.
P.S. "But in previous meta people were also complaining". Sure, they were. But remember we use to complain that Firelands Portal was too random and swingy. Compare it with what we have now, and I think it's reasonable to say Firelands would be fine by today's standards.
TL;DR : Kekw, turn 5 in 2020.
