People seem to forget that Year 1 snipers pretty much had zero aim assist increasing perks outside of scopes. Hidden Hand wasn't introduced until, I want to say HoW. LDR and Longbow didn't used to have HH. And I'm fairly certain in one of these patches they increased the base AA value of snipers across the board. Sniping got easier to the point of being almost automated, and the risk/reward ratio heavily favors reward since getting shot while being ADSed [b]rarely[/b] results in losing the engagement. The only "counter" to it, is either getting a high RoF AR or PR with High Caliber Rounds, or sniping yourself. Neither of which work very well, hence the quotes.