Just to clear up facts:
- PCP is the easy way
- No Mare fork is endorsed at all
- Mare Dev for very obvious reasons doesn't touch/endorse clones
- Syncs have various QoL but do your own research for what's right or safe for you
- Lightless has previous mare mods
- Lightless is not malicious

World/Race/Gender/Clan is the census that is opt in only, this is from mare and existed for 2+ years.

Everything else you've listed is seriously not understanding how mare worked to begin with, nor how plugins work. Before claiming making an assessment you need to understand what repos do.

This was a long, long time ago as in over a year, that’s not likely the reason. It’s most likely they did it because of player scope emboldening them and they thought they were doing accid still (they weren’t and nothing was stored).

Has there been some consideration to allow Brio to adopt any missing features into Ktisis? It may be more beneficial at this point to have a unified plugin so there won't be issues of cross compatibility.

Nope, you might need a bit more research. It used accid to ensure people were banned and couldn't avoid it with alts. 0 stalking, nothing else, and acci only accessible to the dev FOR bans and NOT stored.

Just don’t be an asshole, is it that hard.

As for making them offline, you can, this menu exists when disconnected under settings > storage > open character data hub. If there's other complains at this point I'm confused why given neither online nor Brio is required for pure MCDFs.

Warning specifically outlines this is for the pose data, and GPose together, not MCDF. Brio is primarily used because Ktisis' dev is MIA.

Brio is not at all required to use MCDF, it's required for MCDO which isn't the same thing. MCDO contains pose data which is loaded from Brio.

There's a lot of ways they could've opted to not trust the client with account ID but, it seems like they wanted the most simple solution, not having to poll a server. It's incredibly dumb.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely they'll change unless it hurts their pocketbook as the blacklist is functional.

Most of the people who dev/do support for Mare say to not say it in game or autotranslate. Social issues I've not seen it but that's mostly social ineptitude from those types of folk.

IMO, the culture's driven from FFLogs inspection by PF leads for years prior. Tomestone doesn't help this now.

People will always make guides is the thing, especially if said thing is popular. Also, even with guides there's literally people who still ask and generally that's frustrating to even see with people spoonfed.

The only thing I could imagine them being pissy about was your post on sculpts having terrible uvs given friendships. Wouldn’t put stock into them disliking you as much as disliking anyone calling out shitty business practices in modding.

Don’t mean to be a downer about it but, the response really just is PR speech. It’s more likely if somebody can show it’s feasible given for example. The portrait update is partially due to a plugin that exists with the same functionality figured out before.

They’ve said the same thing towards Viera/Hrothgar (hair, hats, etc), it’s been years since they’ve addressed anything.

It will take long time for them to try with your hair again. Though, there have been some who are attempting to prove it’s possible within current “tri limits” vanilla hair has.

Oh that's just hell, where would one even find the 2021 version given nvidia's annoying