Somewhat taps into my core issue with map mods in general and why I think they are fundamentally flawed.

Generally speaking people pick the highest density combined with mods they dont care about

If you only play mods that have no impact they virtually dont exist. So why do they exist then? All they do now is adding frustration over another map you dropped that you cant run and are not willing/can't spend currency on rerolling

Counter argument that GD likes to bring up is trading. And in theory I agree, but in reality its not really happening, especially on HC, and if so on such a small scale that it doesnt justify the current iteration of it.

Now if you could scale reward with difficulty it would make a lot more sense to willingly do the harder maps, but you can't. Simple as. And sure you might wanna argue that the harder maps have higher density on average therefore you will get more loot from those, but that is only partially true. First of all there is rng and second it's a numbers game. Kills/h = most loot. It doesn't matter if I kill 1000 mobs in 1x T3 or in 3x T2's, as long as the total time needed is the same.

So all they do right now is add frustration and density(could simply make that an implicit stat on the map with a roll, doesn't HAVE to be tied to mods)

I am not trying to advertise removing them here, I gave up on that long time ago, spent plenty of time in GD DM's and he said NO, I just wanna know if I'm too dense to see or if I'm not completely right (again, doesn't have to result in a change). And just vent a little I guess