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Making eSports teams be a thing was not a sustainable idea. Standard sports have stable rules, steady attendance revenue. Electronic sports are at the mercy of each game's developer and can't attract as many attendants
It's not like sports rules have never changed (they do often but it's usually small things because of how long they've been around) and they didn't always have steady attendance/revenue, it took decades for many pro sports to "catch on" in a similar way to how they are now.
Not saying I disagree fully but your provided reasons don't really stand up.
eSports are based on specific properties from given companies. At any given time, said company can decide to pull support for the game and disallow tournaments (e.g. Nintendo) or stop sponsoring the competitive circuit (e.g. Blizzard).
True, but that doesn't mean esports would have to die, there was esports tournaments before game companies ever got involved with more specifically controlling them.