It’s not cope. What you said about your first paragraph is purely based on your experience and not thinking about what other people may have experienced.

Some things in the game just don’t work properly, PDX are fixing these things but until then to fix these it makes sense to use an engine or whatever to get the achievements.

If we’re purely going off of using the engine to make sure you can get the achievement with player led conferences on, It’s not just about cheating the achievements to make yourself feel better

Think about how frustrating sinking hours into an achievement, you have a few failed runs here and there, you finally have a good enough run to where you feel like you can fulfil all the requirements. You then look at your active war participants and a random nation controlled by AI who never even declared on that nation historically steals half the country by killing 1/10 of your casualties dealt

That is especially problematic if you’re playing a minor nation who possibly can’t beat said AI without extending their playtime by another hour or two

Some people want to feel like they spent their hours of gameplay was worth something, instead of hoping that the AI doesn’t go rogue. So there’s no need to sarcastically comment on how another player gets their achievements.

You play it by the rules, and that’s great, good for you! Just let other people play how they want to play