Honestly, I go back and forth. The "fair play" kid in me is horrified by all of this, but I can feel that kid slipping farther away every day. Having pounded my head against the multiplayer fps wall now for 25 years... I'm starting to have a very hard time getting judgmental when people want to stop being fed to better players, want to stop having a badly designed game make them feel incompetent despite years of "paying their dues," want to stop being absolutely certain that the people beating them are cheating. I just don't know. If there's such a thing as a tipping point then I would say this is it. I can't decide if this is a "can't beat 'em, time to join 'em" situation. Or if it's time to just quit gaming completely. I only know that the current situation is bad and continuing on as if it isn't happening... is really not a sustainable attitude. Maybe this is just the new normal, the new price of entry, the true leveling of the playing field. I hate thinking about it like this, but the cheating is real and the developers and publishers can't do anything to stop it - at least not from what I'm seeing in-game or on YouTube.
On the other hand, just because you're the very last guy on the planet to start using cheats... doesn't really let you off the hook for being a cheater. I don't want to be a cheater. I really don't. And the real kicker is that none of these cheats were built by Respawn or sold by Respawn... but deep in my black little heart I still blame them (and pretty much all fps devs) for building their games with such high skill ceilings that it makes people feel like they need to do whatever it takes to be competitive. Including, obviously, cheating. High skill ceilings and bad skill-based matchmaking. The true drivers of all cheating. And the lack of a moral compass. And the anonymity of the internet. But also the devs.
**bleep** it. Now I'm really pissed.