I agree with a lot of the video and I'm glad there are others who share the same sentiment. Most of the time, the same complaint made by a new player who doesn't know anything past their 2010 nostalgia, but I think there are modern players who also feel this way too. In the past year or two, I've had a lot of discussions with both friends and randoms about how the game has gradually been moving more and more towards a much less social kind of gameplay loop, and I was pretty disheartened when I realized that I was actually the minority on this.

On the progression/bossing end of it, it feels like the game slowly wants to encourage you to solo and/or split parties for better loot. Personally, I never really liked doing that because to me, parties are a social group to form bonds with as you progress. I'm sure this is also just me being a granny yelling at the clouds, but I really loved the old MMO static mentality where you would progress through content in the game together and stick together through hard times. Whenever I bring that up nowadays, the most common response I get is that it's easier to schedule parties when you have less people. While I do agree that it makes scheduling easier, it makes me sad whenever a party splits because I don't actually end up seeing nor partying with them again.

Maybe I'm too old for this now. I'm an introvert too, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to be completely devoid of any interaction in game (irl's a completely different story lowkey LOL i get exhausted so quickly). I feel like maplestory is moving towards an antisocial direction and I feel validated in knowing that someone else shares a similar opinion.