Its a combination of both but the crowd now is often focused on numbers rather than quality. No matter how great you are, you will always loose with overwhelming number disadvantage.
Now if the mass horde is HOing everything too, well, its not rocket science.
Which suggest, if you’re always losing, its not fun. No fun, no play. Its that easy. It’s not some mythical lost reason.
Nit have no large sqd, to throw at it, so they go after the weakest link and then battle cry superiority.
Both issues brought up, those players will avoid change if they have to chew their own leg off to maintain SOP.
No affect? Nits numbers cut by 1/3.
Wasted words, wasted players.