CS:GO started to become unplayable for me with weapon skin. Followed by stickers, followed by graffiti, musicboxes, gloves, character models. Its all trash, people spend big $$$ on literal in-game textures. Not even starting on all the online markets, trading, betting, lottery. But yeah Valorant will be free to play, so they need to make money somehow. I am not sure if I will continue to play that game.
For the beta that Valorant is in now, it all seems decent. Good balance, quick gameplay, not too many issues.