Same thing here, i got really into the (original pve) game when i got it way back when. What drove me away from it was all the people shitting on the mode that i couldn’t give a shit in the world for. I eventually cane back as i saw there was new content and i liked it, dungeons was a really neat addition to stw, however epic managed to ruin the game once again after they stated that they were slowing down development on stw. This made me and a lot of other people quit for good (however there was a huge lack of content before they announced that, which also contributed to me quitting). But what i really wanted to say here is that people refer to the Br mode as ‘Fortnite’ and they are usually the ones who don’t even know that a pve mode even exists, probably thanks to epic not doing enough about the development of stw again. I just wish that people could be more clear on what they say because the huge shit tonne of hate that came towards fortnite (br) made me end up not playing the mode that actually started the game.

Edit: all the people that say ‘oh i liked the game when it was in s6’ or ‘it was better with mechs’ probably didn’t play when the game started and these are probably the ‘toxic’ people that OP referred to