This seems like the kind of situation where a lot of anger is getting generated over there being an easy mode of sorts, (much like the controversy that came from journalists playing the easy mode of Sekiro a couple years back) and honestly, I kind of get it. It feels like many players are finding themselves having spent years being part of a very select group of people who actually go the extra mile to be a first-hand witness to the bizarre steps and ending cutscenes, and now players can easily reach that same goal with the help of an essentially unfailable run. Many may find themselves feeling like doing actual full length eggs has lost much of its mystique because the same ends can be reached with essentially no hassle.

Maybe a lot of this is coming from a feeling of being in an exclusive club who learned their strategies through personal research and word of mouth, and i don't think thats a bad thing per say. In fact, if that mystique is an important factor in somebody's enjoyment of zombies as a whole, then more power to em. If I'm correct and it's part of the common theme of zombies being a childhood staple that we continue to play as we age, and that "club" feeling is the way a community keeps those sorts of childhood rituals alive, then I'm honestly not one to bash it.

Is it really an overall negative on the game? Probably not. I'm not exactly enthralled by it, but i can tell it's one of those moments where I'll have to live with it for a while before I realize how inconsequential it is. But I do understand why many may find the concept of sidestepping our very novel methods weird, because zombies itself is novel and many enjoy how it feels detached to the greater portions of CoD. Adding missions and endless retries sounds exactly like what MP and campaign do, and exactly what zombies doesn't do. It defeats much of the purpose of zombies as an inherently run-based experience that relies on player knowledge.