The fact that this is still very reasonably fun with friends or even by yourself despite its near unprecedented bloat of new mechanics/modes is a real testament to both its core gameplay and infectiously joyous art style. Granted, I was over the whole battle royale/arena shooter craze barely even two years after it started - but this one has always been one of the more approachable ones. Playing created maps is still way more limited than it needs to be, not to mention the actual maps being churned out have well past stagnated - you can only play the exact same deathrun variation so many times before it gets stale. And obviously the store is predatory, but what live service store isn't these days? I don't think this really got any better or worse, people are just nostalgic for the times before we all got old, tired, and burned out - same attitude towards the CoD games. Resoundingly okay.