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if you didn't play this game pre-shb you haven't seen how much the general playerbase attitude has shifted against literally every thing imaginable, you'd get made fun of for using many of the third party tools available to you when playing the game and that alone was a major deterrent since people care when others are judgemental of them, everything now is so much more egregious and relaxed because the game was flooded by people from other locations the overall general populace opinion towards things have gradually shifted over time and now you have things like sims and automarkers completely normalized as tools for people to use like they aren't blatantly cheating and trivializing content
mare isn't solely responsible but it's a product of it and I genuinely am happy to see these people leave the game, I legitimately believe the community has a chance to improve and heal with the mentality these people have being less prevalent than before