People talk about this map is ''most heavily Defender sided'' but in fact lot of matches that teams play much better on T sided . And almost all best matches are on Split
You should watch some channels to know about Val strats to understand how they play. Saying ''random'' is very discredit/disrespect to all hard work from them. You talk about pistols, there are ''pistiol strats'' also, and ''low buy'' strats also. Try to study more after quickly saying ''random ,rng''. I'm really tired about ''Val so random'' all week long, I heard enough from clueless people
I think the low score also applies to it, like in cs even is you lose the first 4-5 rounds you can still be well ahead if you win the next 10 or so round. but in val, if you win pistol and the next 2 rounds, you already are pretty close to an even half.
Which imo is a good thing, people are forced to take pistol round way more seriously compared to in cs, it's ok to not win pistol