Hot Take: The box has been irrelevant far longer than BO6

In BO2, you could craft the wonder weapons in almost every map, and most times didn't have a choice. Combine that with BO2 having some very good wall weapons, Double Tap being buffed to double damage, and some maps giving easier access to the best guns and you could realistically have no reason to hit the box on some maps.

BO3 had much of the same issue, but now also added in Ammo Mods/AAT which makes almost every gun play the same at high rounds, turning them into insta-kill wonder weapons. This moreso incentivizes just using a wall weapon since it has the same effectiveness while having the benefit of buying ammo for it.

BO4 added the health cap and multi-PaP which makes weapons far more effective in higher rounds without needed to activate the insta-kill ability they all have.

I don’t see where this sentiment comes from that the box is now useless, especially when it has some more purpose like being a cheaper alternative to wall weapons that increase in price and can give higher rarity weapons saving you salvage.

I don’t see any more reason to hit the box in a game like BO3 vs a game like BO6