It’s always been useful in figuring out if you need to lead or trail a target more in a shooter, but all these modern shooters have taken that bit out of the scoreboard.
Checking out The Finals and for the first few games, I thought it used projectiles for the guns because I hit more often shooting ahead of moving targets, only to find they are indeed hitscan and hit better when actually looking directly at the dude when nobody is lagging.
People seeing something unusual and checking to see if it’s enough to be concerning is a good thing, even if it’s not actually a problem. I think people have formed a habit of not bothering to try because they have had the tools to learn things for themselves hidden from them, and we should be blaming it on the people doing the hiding, not blowing it off as people these days being magically different from how people used to be somehow.