I find that the higher the ranks of the opposing team the more you see it. It is pretty avoidable in most situations though.
It is mostly avoidable. You just need to learn which spawns are the safest, and to look at windows as you approach. There are some approaches that are kind of death traps, and some peeks that are just super cheesy. They've patched out some of the worst ones by putting up obstructions.
As for higher ranks doing it more, I guess. At the same time higher ranks are also better at dealing with it. I'd argue that a high rank player going for peeks or jump outs is pretty much disrespecting his opponent. Usually it's Jaeger who if he wants to do all his reinforcements, put down his barbed wire and set up his ADS won't have time to do a peek anyway. And you see that guy all the time, doesn't do his work in the prep round, gets counter-picked 3 seconds in, and puts you in a tough spot. Of course I'm often that guy... usually on Plane.
A lot of the time at higher ranks the spawn battles are pretty much consensual. I spawn Police Line on Consulate all the time wanting to fight someone trying to peek from the piano room.
As I mentioned before I think the biggest problem with spawn kills is the ability to jump out and rush certain spawns, and I think waiting 15 seconds before giving the defenders any time before being detected would do the trick.
This cheesy ass style of peek should be patched out entirely:
http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/Pegasus Actual/video/28245615
Aside from that people just need to play smarter. Pick a spawn farther away from objective. Don't suicide your drone into the objective for scan points, use it to catch roamers going towards your spawn, and use it to drone yourself in once you do get up to the building safely. On plane always have someone park their drone outside that dual sided service entrance and call out anyone jumping out. And if you don't see one there, you probably want to aim at the wing entrance as you start your approach while minimizing your exposure to the meeting hall door in case they jump out there. Or just spawn at the north side and you really only have to worry about that service entrance area, and if they jump out of there you can rappel up and spray anyone that's taking too long jumping out the other side.
And spawn peeks have recently gotten an indirect nerf with that Glaz thermal. That shit's real good.
