I've heard a lot of people complaining about the lag but I have not experienced that yet. The balance issues I see though. PVP and PVE metas need a look at for sure. I haven't done a lot with politics in the game as I try to keep politics out of my hobbies but if I see it on map chat I will join in for some fun, usually it takes one word like MAGA or something to make map chat explode, this is true of many games though as a lot of gamers are pretty weak skinned (probably most people in general tbh). The company is based out of washington state so yeah I can see the dev team being made of mostly pieces of shit but then again most of the entertainment industry particularly around software is. Not all but a large part, or at least the vocal part.