It is the stupidest statement one can make to say “high ping doesn’t affect your aim”. High ping creates latency which will affect your performance. Just because it is possible to still hit your target with high ping, it doesn’t mean it is ideal. Consider hitting your target with high ping as “lucky shots” because other wise with low ping you wouldn’t have hit that target given the same circumstances. None of the pro FPS players will claim that they can perform well with high ping or let alone join a tournament with such condition. The reason why in this game specifically high ping doesn’t feel as bad, specially for FT, is because of the hit scan weapons, but even then it’s still bad to have high ping and it will affect your performance.
High ping is juts terrible regardless of your skill level, there is no ifs or buts about it.
20ms is perfect, 50ms is ok, anything obove that is just terrible, playable, but terrible.