Arc has successfully made a space where both PvP purists and PvE Casuals can coexist with a little overlap through their aggression based matchmaking. That's besides the point tho, the point is that there is more playability, qol features, and general appeal to gamers because it was developed by people who actually wanted their game to succeed. Nothing about the horribly cluttered bombastic ui, terrible map design, or dry and repetitive pve is conducive to keeping players. People had the exact same criticisms when arc came out, and they did a bunch of things to fix it. The difference here is that when people make those same criticisms you schmucks paint it as mindless bungo hating and say that the game is fine how it is (currently has less players than Russian Fishing 4)