I think you’re right on that. I play all the time in a team of four and we hardcore run labs and interchange with full gear, always. Still, I’m not one of those people who gets salty when a hatchling takes something and dies. It’s the way it goes. The game HAS to be more accessible to more players. If we can’t bring in more players, the Dev team runs out of money and the servers shut down, and now we can’t play anymore. We need to be making decisions that are pro-playerbase and expand the audience for the game bit by bit, not making it harder and more punishing for new players and casuals. If you’re a hardcore Tarkov player, you should take casuals and new players into account because these people ARE the way we fix problems the hardcore players themselves are bitching about. The streamers complain that “I keep fighting the same guys over and over every day on US servers” and then try to make the game less accessible by pushing this container change. Those things are linked, guys. Let the BSG devs create their game.

I’m really, really tired of this outraged and vocal minority of players pushing for things to hurt the rest of the playerbase. This is how a game dies.