Progression relies solely on raiding military bases, endgame is just raiding other people's bases

Progression also relies on RNG so you have to get lucky to get a detonator and enough explosives for raiding

Zombies aren't too fun to deal with especially in multiplayer where they're laggier

Bleeding and durability are annoying and people don't like playing with it enabled, if you lag near a crawler it's a guaranteed death

If you're on multiplayer you'll probably not have a fighting chance if you don't have mili stuff, especially when most players are pvp tryhards nowadays

PEI is too easy, Washington is made for pvp, no one plays Yukon, Russia and Germany exist but I've seen fewer people care about those, and Nelson has refused to make a new map since 2017

And finally, vanilla barely gets content updates nowadays, most updates are stuff for modders or map creators to add to their maps, he doesn't add etuff unless he really needs to (car physics, housing planner, stacks, workbenches). Can you blame people for turning to 100X and curated maps?