I have an idea for the sniper... Just hear me out okay?
Return the crits.
But make the crits not happen against crouching players...
Reduce the damage to 33.5/67
Make it a secondary
???
Because when you look at the rest of the primaries, they all typically have more depth than the secondaries. Most of them can even be viewed as combining secondaries together in some form or another. But sniper is just sniper. It's only purpose is to get a quick hit off on someone. I totally agree that being able to double tap kill someone was definitely too much, but I feel like losing the crits makes the weapon feel really bland and uninteresting. Especially with the loss of knockback too on headshots. These changes will keep it just as interesting, but not as overpowered as it was, and also open up new weapon combos.