I don't particularly like the limitation of one AWP, but it does serve it's purpose, without it we would be faced with a bunch of lesser skilled players wielding a one-shot weapon turning it into a giant sniper war. I can accept that.

While I believe a more "competitive" type server would be quite beneficial for play, I don't believe that "noobifying" the popular servers will do any good. They will merely continually be used by newer players while all of the "competitive" players would migrate to a smaller, less popular server.

Again, making the game easier to play by installing more limitations and plugins will not further serve to improve gameplay, but to make it worse. You're not helping newer players by making it easier, but hindering their current ability.

Like I stated in a past thread, the AWP isn't this magical kill-all, automatic winning weapon that steamrolls a team. It's proper teamwork, proper gameplay, and players working together that wins games. Having an experienced awper helps teach newer players the right strategy and tactics to take out such an awper. Not only that, but when a player is dominating the scoreboards, it's typically due to the AK or M4.

Edit: Another key factor is that good players recruit good players to play on these servers. In return these good players also keep newer players entranced especially if they want to improve their skills. They increase a server's popularity because others wish to chance their luck and improve against these better players. More limitations would severely limit the amount of good players that frequent these servers.