Before I wasn't so sure but now I'm very sympathetic to the idea of playing only co-op games and PVE stuff and I completely understand now where you guys are coming from when you've decided to take that stance. I honestly think a big part of my change in attitude are the cheat whiners who now completely infest steam.
Some of these complaints may or may not be legitimate with Chinese hackers. However we've reached a new level of retard in the games industry generally where it seems normies are being driven out of games by autists who can play well and they're genuinely too stupid to know the difference between a hacker and somebody who is actually good at the game.
Take Battlebit Remastered as an example because that's a game I played to death when it came out and I sort of hop in the servers that are still active. I don't even necessarily think it's the bullshit chat moderation that has killed off the game's playerbase I think too many people potentially got scared away from all the negative review hack accusation spam that's going about the place and it's completely ridiculous. I maybe encountered one actual hacker in the wild and he ended up getting banned to the credit of the devs and this was on an official server. Recently had a game of battlebit and sure enough there was an actual retard accusing someone of hacking but he did get completely roasted by everybody in chat.
Do you remember when hack accusations were just for the lulz? These guys clearly mean it because they're that bad at the game. It's like a bunch of polygon journalists have taken over everything and they whine constantly about how many cheaters there are and want the game balance changed so they can have an advantage. Obvious smurfing on matchmaking style games is one thing but that's something you can identify properly and when you make these guys try and justify themselves they really are complete morons.
RIP Halo and CoD style lobbies, that's a thing of the past now that the normies have found gaming unless we all get community servers and private them big time.
Oh fortnite is such a classic example of polygon level gaming I honestly can't tell the difference between them and the bots that plague the servers who are clearly afk grinding for skins. You're absolutely right about the building aspect of the game, I preferred dicking around in the no build servers precisely for that reason.
The most hilarious side I saw to the fortnite 'gameplay' is almost everybody was using controllers and trying to exploit the fuck out of the aim assist feature. If you ever find yourself playing that game all you need to do really is learn to be a decent sniper and they can't do shit half the time and when I found this out it was incredibly boring to play. If you destroyed the buildings they would immediately flee into another building because they were hoping to camp people dumb enough to go in an duel with them and their aim assist. So if you just got your distance and sniped all of them you'd make the top 10 easy with little effort. Since they refuse to use mouse and keyboard they could easily be exploited in other ways too, for example because of the low sensitivity on controllers if you got ultra close to them their aim assist would often not work so that's another way to deal with the bastards.
The really annoying players would use the gravity hammer shotgun combo and clearly knew how to deal with that but even then some decent twitch reflexes would put you in contention with those guys fairly easily especially if you combine it with vehicles.
I'm very much done with all though precisely for the reasons you describe, arsehole normie streamers are definitely a factor. I think in general though multiplayer gaming is one of those fun things that got ruined once it got mainstreamed. Nobody will play anything genuinely good anymore because it hurts their egos so you either play mediocre shite like Fortnite and be bored as hell or stick to co-op and singleplayer.
Weird, I play other games with controller much more often than KB/mouse. Yet I can't stand Fortnite with a controller. Aim is never my issue anyway. Except maybe the snipers, something seems off about them. I've probably fired a total of 20 shots through them so it's likely a case of just haven't figured them out.