I made a poll on this before the patch went live (here). Unfortunately, the possible answers were worded not in the best way, but it is quite clear that this is quite a controversial topic.
I personally would have preferred to keep the two man sniper team to avoid further homogenization of factions. Yeah, it might be that the sniper previously was OP, but I would be very surprised if the team couldn't have been kept by making a few minor tweaks.
Interestingly, the soviet sniper team was rarely considered OP or even worthwhile in past iterations, in particular after losing sprint. E.g. if you check the numbers e.g. for WPC, snipers were build in only 15 out of 75 games, even though T1 was built in 36 games. So, it seems unlikely that a 2 man team can't be balanced...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the problem arised in such order:
1. Before brits - no sniper duels as ost sniper camo is too quick for that and sov sniper is at 2 men.
2. Brits - Sniper duel between brits and ost. Brit sniper in a losing position due to slower reload. Both have really quick camo.
3. Sniper camo changed - snipers cant camo quickly and in fights. That means even soviet sniper can countersnipe which makes it a viable option against ostheer.
4. Current patch - sniper duels in two matchups. Soviet sniper off charts with its new firing rate.
The points of 1 and 2 are when sov snipers were considered bad, even though they were not as bad as people have thought. Anything later is the power creep of soviet sniper. That said, I think pre patch sniper with the changes to its counters would be really ok this patch.