I think the Karen comment is justified. A bunch of Karen's that are more concerned with how much XP someone else has, even though it has no bearing on their own account.
Too many people complained, and now instead of addressing the real problem, which is server capacity, Dice is choosing to take action on an aspect of the game that can only be atributed to making the Karens stop complaining. And the problem is that dice are still not addressing the problem. Even if all of the XP servers disappear, the problem will still exist. There isn't enough server capacity.
Saying that I am a casual gamer does not mean that I am not in multiple gaming communities. I'm in several, and all of them are having trouble with their "experience" servers. They are online, but nobody can join them. And all of them wish that Dice will open up server renting. But Dice doesn't want to for who knows what reason. That's the problem. So people look at the list and see all of these XP servers with 1 or 2 people in them that they can actually join. But... they can't join their own. They want to join their own... But they can't. That's why people are yelling so loudly. It has nothing to do with the XP servers themselves. The problem would completely disappear if Dice would just get rid of their so called quota and allow people to join their existing servers.
I mean, think about their own "Recommended Servers" list... Half of them are empty, and you can't even join those servers that are being suggested to you to join. The browser is completely broken. Dice needs to fix their browser and their server limitations and the problem will disappear.
Let the XP whales keep inflating their XP until they have all of the unlocks and nothing to play for anymore. It doesn't affect my gameplay at all because I don't play against them anyway. I play with a bunch of casual gamers that just want to get online, add me to their friends list, laugh when a bot shoots down our chopper, have fun, and cheer when the rank up icon appears on our screens.
They aren't addressing the problem. And once they "fix" the xp server problem, the Karens will shift focus to the server capacity problem, which is the whole problem to begin with.
And once it's all settled. People will still complain. And I'll probably be gone. I'm an old man. I can't compete in the normal servers so I rely on the bots and a few other not so skilled players for my entertainment. But.... They allowed bots in Portal in 2042, and nobody complained. They allowed people to play only bots, in single player servers for unlocks and xp in 2042, and nobody complained.
I think pulling all the tryhards out of call of duty pulled an extremely toxic community to the game. And Dice shouldn't be catering to their wishes.
