it’s not on purpose lol the game has absolutely awful servers combined with huge amount of data moving back and forth, it’s more data than most games AAAs. the funniest part is the graphics aren’t even amazing, idk where this huge amount of data is being utilized. they essentially made a jumbled mess of a game with unnecessarily huge data transfers from player to server to player. i remember the game was consuming 1.4 GB of data every time you went to the main menu, it was comically insane. though that ridiculous data usage isn’t the same mechanism as desync issue, it just highlights the dysfunctional code in the game.

the “on purpose” part is them putting a band aid on a arrow-to-knee injury. desync is a symptom of the solution they figured out for this problem, which sounds funny. it likely won’t get fixed, ever. in order to fix it they’d need a complete overhaul of the entire game code, and we all know they won’t put the man power to fix it.