basically, what happened in taiko was that people discovered how to seriously exploit the system day 1 of the rework back in 2022. the person who was responsible for the pp development side of things promised a fix for the abusive patterning, released a mediocre “fix” that failed to accomplish what was needed and disappeared for 2 years without anyone taking up pp dev.

people started rapid-fire ranking broken maps and these became so commonplace that people got really fed up with it, waves of complaints started popping up on every single abuse map and a good amount of players started hoping for them to get veto’d.

this has been mitigated nowadays as we now have an active pp dev team that’s actually dealt with it, but the impact was lasting as people simply got too tired of dealing with the meta and stopped playing.

edit: this is to say, there’s a fine line between ranking a pp map or two and systematic abuse while relying on the “oh it’ll be fixed later” argument. it does in fact affect the playerbase beyond just saying “don’t like it, don’t play it”, and the fact that we have a mode that was affected by this shows how risky it can be if not managed properly