Was drone the issue all these time? Totally was a burden maybe?
Drone was always the guy who looked lazy af. He is overrated and people think hes actually good because he got some cool frags with Phoenix. His best performance was always with Sova but somehow he didn't like that role. I mean imagine you get paid so much Money and you act like a moron and wanna play something else even if it costs the Team many Games. I am pretty sure they asked him to play the Sova/Viper role but he said no so he can play Phoenix. Now you have someone who is good with Sova and willing to play also Viper or any other role they wanna see him in. In the end it takes you only max. 1-2 week to master an Agent, except Jett.
Somehow every single one of your points are the exact opposite of the truth.
Drone named Sova as his favorite agent but phoenix just suiting his playstyle more. No, he did not perform better on sova than on phoenix, thats just incorrect no matter what stats you look at; he was literally titled the best phoenix in NA or even the world for awhile, reinventing what it meant to be a phoenix. But with his strongest agent falling out of the meta, so did he.
dont know what ur talking about, drone was not good on sova, he was WAYYY better in pheonix, in first strike whenever wardell was getting cold, drone was shitting on everyone and was even named the best rifler by multiple people. He was literally the best entry fragger stats wise and a big reason why TSM made it all the way to the finals and even won their only map in the finals because of him popping off.