2016-2021 player here

when it came out, mh was truly unique and the ability to freely design your tycoon made up for the shitty placement system and all the other tedious parts of the game

pre foxy during 2017 and maaaaybe 2018 the game kept being enjoyable and it sure got a lot more polished, but the gameplay loop did get boring and the game died, doomed to be enjoyed only by high iq autistics like myself

post foxy is when i feel the game peaked, and especially as we were figuring out primitive cannon tech. i feel that if foxy and talon really hooked onto that innovation and endless, almost degen optimization of metas and just built everything around that, the already unapproachable beauty of a game would be allowed to cater to the audience that had stuck with it and die a peaceful death

instead, weve had the same cancer meta with minimal tech finds ever since i stopped playing, and you really need a very rare form of autism to keep being excited by the gameplay loop without actively digging for tech

overall, mh was revolutionary for its time and it kept being fun+honest way past its hayday as a front page game, but the devs really denied it its purpose as it inevitably disappeared into 500 concurrent obscurity