Zooming out helps for nonlatency issues, but isn't the solution to the problems people have been having.

I always keep my camera at max difference. Always. I don't even think about it anymore, soon as the camera goes in, I automatically bring it back out. That's a habit I got from playing PvP where I want to be able to always see the playing field as best I can. And yet I still get hit by landslide/plumes even when I am far away from them.