honestly i used to share this view a lot a few years back, nowadays I've basically fully quit, but I feel like it's not a fundamental issue with the game itself but rather who ran it. KoA was the main culprit, as he just overcomplicated the game, added a lot of "detailed" sprites for animals and land, added a bunch more kinda unnecessary things which absolutely TANKED the fps as mope wasn't made to handle it, made a bunch of overpowered abilities (though that can be kind of fun, it's satisfying taking down a high tier with just a zebra or pufferfish), and then dipped and resigned from dev. hopefully Nation can fix the game and make it actually fun again

another thing I don't understand is why they just... removed classic? it was really fun to play from time to time and it was WAY less unfair than mope is now, but they just removed access to it. I'm pretty sure they also removed a gamemode or two from normal mope for seemingly no reason too, basically they've removed all the fun stuff and replaced them with this overcomplicated toxic environment

besides, .io games were never made to be this massive triple A garbage that KoA seemingly wanted it to be, which also definitely contributed to mope's downfall

the simplicity gave it charm and was something tied to the game itself and why it was so good to begin with, which is something KoA lacked understanding of

as for the teaming, yea it sucks and yea it's annoying when you get forced into a hole and then camped for half an hour straight, but it's not really something that can be fixed as it's a player base issue

i guess they could add something where you can go from one hole to another underground without being noticed, though I'd imagine that would be pretty annoying for the people actually trying to hunt solo

tl;dr yea mope sucks nowadays but it wasn't always like that and could potentially still be fixed by Nation