Those people definitely exist, but for some reason they’re more well behaved than other communities. I think the lobby system helps a lot because the good players can self-select to avoid noob stomping.
If you do return, I highly recommend a mod called Mental Omega. It adds sub factions for yuri, a whole new faction, and has four new campaigns. At this point Mental Omega has more content than all of the 2.5d games combined.
A lot of medium skill people still play, surprisingly. I’m not good at all and still have roughly a 70% win rate.
The patch most heavily nerfs France, Iraq, and most importantly, Yuri.
It also fixes a metric fuck ton of bugs. Someone even managed to patch the engine to fix the input delay on lower game speeds.
It worked for StarCraft. You train a model on human gameplay and then have it play the game.
Helps my APM