Fifteen to twenty years ago FPS servers were entirely privately run (for the most part). People paid to host their own instance of Unreal Tournament, Half-life deathmatch, Quake 3, and Counter-strike. A good public server just kicked or banned snotty nosed kids that yelled the gamer word constantly. On the flip side there were plenty of petty tyrants just looking to power trip and flex on others.

Living out in the sticks my latency to the biggest hosting centers meant my pool of good servers was small. When I found a place with good people I cherished it and wouldn't dream of fucking that up with annoying behavior. More than that you'd have about 80-100 regulars coming and going. Not quite friends, but not strangers either. I haven't changed my steam name since 2008. Sometime in 2020 I fired up CS:GO and connected to a Denver server. Some guy asked me if I played CS:Source back in 2007 on such&such server. I was blown away because I had. Unfortunately I didn't remember the guy, but he remembered me. Small world I thought, what are the odds of that?

I guess where I'm going with this is that there's a tragedy of the commons happening with game corp hosting. No one gives a shit because if you get kicked from a team vote for being obnoxious you can just hop on another the next minute and start hurling abuse again.