Found this post on reddit
"You should be bothered by it.

It's pretty easy to understand they don't expect sprays to be kept this way, and be successful unless Valve's employees are that stupid. Their strategy is to desensitize users to the idea of paying for sprays by getting them angry at the temporary aspect. That temporary aspect will be removed as a ploy to make the case that "Valve listens to the community." Everyone will then view paying for sprays as acceptable as long as they're permanent.

Valve isn't a Game Studio (which implies at least some artistic ambition) anymore, it's purely a profit-seeking company with little to no interest in unique, creative, or ambitious pursuits. CS:GO isn't being ran as a product, it's being ran as a service.

People who really want an enjoyable experience playing PC games in our time need to be conscious of the cold calculated businesses decisions these companies are making. Similar techniques are deployed for a variety of different products and services these days. The lack of consumer awareness of these tactics has led to the throw-away status of electronics these days, despite the fact that neither necessity nor further advancement in technology for almost the past decade has justified this wasteful attitude."

People who started at CS:GO probably don't know that sprays were free and could be uploaded by the player so it won't bother them, and i get that CS:GO updates and server hosting doesn't happen for free and that the more money that goes into the game keeps the game going, so on one hand i can't be mad at Valve doing whatever they can to keep CS going, but i can't not be miffed at the lack of player freedom here.
I am a custom sprayer, it's how i learned how to use Photoshop in the Source era, people would spray the default sprays because it's all they had, but custom sprays were an identity and inspiration for others to either find or create their own unique tags, filling the game world with funny jokes, pretty designs... and maybe a little nudity, it was unregulated (except by server admins) and a brilliant expression of freedom.

This is unrelated to this update, but i uninstalled CS:GO today, this is the first time i haven't had CS on my PC in 16/17 years, this is a pretty big moment for me but obviously doesn't mean i won't jump back into it in the future, my interests are just in other multiplayer games now (Rocket League mostly).

For fun i still have some i made, let's see.

This is really true and it's a shame that as consumers no one cares or cares enough to say enough is enough. The gaming industry became very corporate and has a lot of bait and switch in it anymore. There is a lot more money being spent on a game, but we see flop after flop now with tons of hype and fake demos of what the game will be just to get people to spend and people some time ago have accepted many things we shouldn't have.

In the end we just want to play our favorite games, but there comes a time where you have to say no to a franchise or even a developer.

I'm always ready to switch back to 1.6.

I still got older CSs installed. Not sure if you can still play em or not, but I have 1.3 and 1.5, gotta love pre-steam CS lol 😜