It's BECAUSE you can use building to close distance that shotguns are so prevalent. If you're the type of person that prefers longer range battles, there's literally nothing you can do to stop people from ramp pushing you. They will close the distance and it will then be a shotgun battle.
Nah, this is backwards. Its because shotguns are so powerful, and you can bunnyhop with them that make stair pushing so prevalent
Shotguns encourage the CQC aggressiveness and everybody is forced to go along with it. If you played Solid Gold, ramp pushing was not common because without shotguns, you were left to rely on pistols, meaning you couldn't jump around and were an easy target.
They need to combine the shotguns and adjust rarity:
Green-Blue: Tactical
Purple: Pump or Tactical variants
No grey shotguns, no gold shotguns.
You can straight up 1 shot enemies with a pump headshot. For its immense power, it should be a Purple weapon. Its not hard to use by any means, and just forces a shotgun meta.
I know Epic wont do it, but I think it'd be a much better way to control the shotgun spam and open up SMGs and pistols to the CQC, reduce the aggressive spam pushing, and encourage more mid firefights.