This used to be a promoted feature in CS, with "HLTV/GOTV", but sadly disappeared when they moved to CS2.
Spectating in-client is such as powerful way to learn what people are doing that you can't always see even from a recording from their perspective.
Halo 3's in-engine replay system was the high water mark of gaming for me.
Ah, the good old days of watching live competition of quake through the game itself, chatting with others basically through the game console.
Pretty cool system.
The game engine, Source, is also using client-server architecture
I'm sure the technology still exists in the engine, but it's no longer the key feature it once was. HLTV/GOTV was launched with some fanfare back in the day.