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.
Meanwhile Riot Vanguard shills(Valorant and soon League of Legends's kernel anticheat) are gaslighting players who encounter cheaters because they unironically believe that Vanguard is infailable(it isn't, not even close and only raised the bar for cheating, you can cheat all you want with a 20$ microcontroller, or if you have the money another computer and a DMA card, or heck just use a cheat disguised as a bootkit) and cheaters only exist in your head.
I think the issue became prevalent because of Riot Vanguards requirement to load very early in the boot process and if you dared to stop it you had to reboot before you could play any Vanguard protected games instead of the anticheat driver loading with the game and unloading itself after you finish, like you know every other kernel anticheat under the sun.