true, I think their game against PRX turned them off moving to a more meta and fast-paced composition. They probably thought using the astra cypher to stop fast pushes was the answer, but I think it's better to lean into the meta rather than counter it.
Perhaps they also had the same thing happen to them by Liquid the other day too on Split, I still think fracture is a very strange choice. Breeze, icebox, ascent? All maps that optic don’t look great on atm.