Overwatch’s Game Director Aaron Keller has put out a blog post about the future of PvE for Overwatch 2, and why they cancelled their original vision for PvE.
Aaron Keller went into great detail about the history of Overwatch’s development, their original vision for PvE, and future Overwatch PvE content, summarized below:
PvE is still continuing for Overwatch in the form of Story Missions
Story Missions are linear narrative missions, beginning in Season 6.