Just to touch on something about AI difficulty in your first paragraph. Beforehand, I personally don’t have a problem with the difficulty, I’m still racing on 95 with no assists including cockpit cam. What I would ask anyone who thinks it makes sense to increase difficulty so the best players can race AI is… Do you honestly think the BEST players waste their time racing against AI that are flawed anyway?. I can guarantee that while they may make the odd YouTube video racing against AI, they will otherwise not touch ANY offline single player mode so to adjust AI difficulty for players that aren’t going to touch it doesn’t make an ounce of sense beings they’ll purely race online competitively.
@drewgriffithsWell, it really depends about which level you are talking about. The aliens don't really play against other humans either, apart when participating in championships or special events, just because they are so good that they cannot simply find nobody to race against (if not just to have some fun), aside from other aliens like themselves (that however seldomly race without a specific reason, as for most of them sim racing is a job). Aliens mainly do laps after laps by themselves in preparation for whichever competitive race they will participate next. Sadly that's the nature of sim racing: the more you advance and the less options you will have.
Apart from them, even very good players have different things they like and I know many, in fact, that actually like to play against AI, it is just that very few sim racing games even care to put time on developing challenging AI and practically only the CM games actually have a true dedicated championship like experience with the AI. Hence more than not having good players liking to play against AI it is that simply there aren't many options around to do so in a meaningful way, especially in the more "hardcore" sims.
