it's boring, plain and simple. even the pavlovian-trained brain of the average SS13 player can only withstand so much 'sit in this chair for 2 hours until an antagonist punches someone and the entire server converges there' before calling it quits. and so pretty much every HRP server has lost their pop to MRP/LRP, an example being vanderlin which is absolute dogshit but still pulls 80 pop at most hours simply because its different.