Yes. You'll get dogged on for probably quite a while as you adjust to the game. There are helpful settings now for learning stuff like recoil control with the follow recoil crosshairs setting though.

It's relatively easy to learn but hard to master. It's competitive and it's easy to watch since the main concept is simple (1 side attacks, another side defends). It's free and can run on many outdated PC's.

Currently, the biggest Counter-Strike (CS2/CS:GO) YouTuber is the channel “Fitz,” with 5.35 million subscribers.

The bottom line? This is already an incredible game that's well worth playing - after all, it is Counter-Strike, too. CS2 also proves that despite their reluctance to do so, Valve still has all the chops whenever they choose to put their game developer hat on.