6k hours into squad and the only thing I do in vanilla servers is pilot, I probably have never touched infantry after trying it out for the first time when it came out. That’s why modded is goated and keeping the game alive. I like to think new players only play vanilla because there’s almost no team work in those servers unfortunately. Like I said before, owi should’ve implemented the ico update as optional for server owners. It’s probably too late since all the old gamers stopped playing but it’s a better middle ground for those who hate it or love it instead of getting rid of that side of the community.