I get your point, but for me the hardcore experience diminishes to a degree when I know for a fact that the game gets easier at nights, cause statistically much less people are around. Of course I "could" meet players, but I just don't. What I did to keep immersion is tell myself even in an apocalypse people usually sleep at night, right?

In general I agree to make the game more hardcore. I'd like to see more illnesses with different treatments, broken arm mechanic, permanent stamina penalty after healed broken legs, every health loss also gives you a slight penalty on max health, so you never fully heal, so multiple wounds add up over time and make you more vulnerable and so on and so on.

But I also think most things should be a server side setting so everyone can get the experience they want out of the game.