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I saw what you wrote about altering the game, but that doesn't make your opinion any more reasonable. What about pokes? Those were built in console commands to cheat. No external hack needed. I don't understand why altering game files makes any  difference. You're looking for an advantage either way.
 If all you have is "everyone has the possibility to do it" maybe you need to find some better reasons for keeping it.
I don't care about realism. Not everyone knows how to do it, it's just another thing that makes the game harder to get into for some players. If we can make the game even a little bit more level it's a win.
It is not supposed to be a part of the game. The devs removed it (at least the way to do it everyone uses on 2.5) from later versions for a reason. If people want a faster game (which quickswap is negligible anyways when it comes to speeding up the game) they can go play a faster game. There's no reason we should compromise what AA should be to satisfy a market the game was never meant for.

Like I said earlier, I don't see why editing game files to gain an advantage is any different than using an exploit to gain an advantage. The advantage is still gained.

Your smoke comparison is poor too. The problem is that the smoke going through walls is unfixable as far as I know. You'd have to change how the smoke interacts with BSP and I doubt that can be changed outside of the game source code. Quick swap might be fixable. Since some things aren't fixable we should give up on the things that could be? 

Also, if quickswap isn't an advantage like you said, why do people use it? It might not be a big advantage, but the advantage is there and denying it gets this conversation nowhere.

And that difference doesn't matter at all when talking about gaining an unfair advantage.

How are we going to punish them? It's impossible to do effectively and you know it. You're arguing just for the sake of arguing here. I'll also reiterate that why does one thing not being punished for mean another thing shouldn't be? Smoke grenades through walls and quickswap are 2 completely separate issues and should be treated as such. This thread is about quickswap, focus on that.

Again, this isn't really a reason to not get rid of it. " A lot of people know how to use it" is a poor argument.

Well, even though it was mentioned and also said its off the topic, I want to say that the smoke going through walls is also used to gain  advantage - for example in Pipeline, smoking the wall outside of main in purpose to smoke the corridor, or smoking main pump room through other walls.. and many who complain about quick swap, probably are using the smoke glitch intentionally.

Personally I think its also the part of the game and I consider it tactics. Like quickswap.

Someone asked from my previous post that realism of quickswap. Of course it is not realistic. But aa shouldnt be entirely realistic, but also fun. I was talking about nades, how unrealistic and not fun they are nowadays, old aa was better in that, and how some  nubs complained about too powerful nades how they are in their opinion unrealistic, and through much of their complaining, they got what they wanted: nades that kill if they are just couple of inches away from you. Thats what I call unrealistic.

And I hope that with some less realistic parts of the game, like quickswap doesnt happen what happened with those nades, that a good old part of the game is changed causing less activity with many players.