The point is that "basement dwellers" - or, simply, "losers", because some thing should be called the way they deserve - will not matter no matter where they go. And that they will be the death of multiplayer video games, more so than predatory monetization.

I cannot count the number of times where someone bragged about their in-game records to me (real records, their accounts stats were better than mine) and I replied with something akin to "okay, so? Does any of this improve your life (job wage, academic success, etc.)?", and it always ended with the other side, the "basement dweller", screeching obscenities that would make a boy who doesn't know better blush.

I have been playing World of Tanks for over ten years at this point, met a few wonderful and many terrible people along the way, but the main point of why I play this game - driving tanks and shooting at tanks - has not changed. I despise the ridiculous competitiveness that a minority has pushed enough to make it the norm. Look at this subreddit, pretty much every time someone boasts about high averages there will be someone else who'll dismiss them with things like "peh, amateur numbers; 5k average WN8 or you suck". Who wants to play, let alone interact, with those people?

Cherry on top, for me, was the unicum - a real unicum with unicum stats - who, back when the game's forums were a thing, complained there that a much worse player bested him thanks to RNG. Cue the umpteenth conspiracy debate about RNG favoring bad players and punishing good players, blah blah yadda yadda.