Majority of Na players prefered CS, and have said on stream before. Just their scene died during covid, so they migrated.
Nitro going back is purely for passion, as there's no guarantee he can perform at a T1 level anymore. Him staying in Val is smarter for his career, than going back to CS which liquid has been so shaky recently.
I also agree with you. Was just adding onto your point :)
The travel for CS is bad right now just due to covid and everything being based in Europe if needed to play online. Best play to have it for ping purposes. NA is simply too big for it to be held there. Someone in Western NA playing on a Chicago server gets 80 ping and vice versa. When LANs return all over, should go back to normal.