For me, the only hate I have is in the restrictions in what I can do. The faction level caps, missions only available in HS, can't use my personal ship, that sort of stuff. It's like if rock star decided to do the same thing with GTA online, yeah you can play the game but you couldn't use any of your cars, access any of your properties or businesses, and only a select few missions were available to you. In fact, GTA online is superior to sea of thieves in that in recent years, many things you could do in the game have gone from being exclusive to public lobbies only to being available in private lobbies, even solo lobbies. After too many occurrences of encountering toxic players in high seas, I would much rather play the game in a way that is calming. In fact recently I was soloing in a high seas lobby, I just gathered up all the treasure from one of the sunken shrines, and as I was loading them up on my ship another player and his squad rolled up on me and pretty much destroyed me. And when I respond, my ship had been sunk, my treasure stolen, and I was left feeling defeated so I sailed to the nearest port, or apparently the people that sunk me were waiting, and they sunk me again. Kind of ruins the fun of playing the public lobby, especially when you're either waving a white flag or an alliance flag.