Reading through the article.. "It took over a year for GTA O to become what it is today'? WTF is that dude talking about? Currently GTA O is a mess..
What he means is.. It took a few years for them to truly understand how to nickle and dime their player base and completely ruin what GTA is all about. The '1st' year of GTA O was OLD gen.. Old gen, pre HEISTS update was the best, most balanced, most grounded version of GTA O.
GTA O year ONE.. Had free aim/ autoaim/ private lobbies..
As far as "SHOW DOWN" goes.. PVP is a ****ing mess in this game as you can't even chose what you want to play. AUTO AIM ruins pvp. Ability cards/Tonics completely unbalance PVP. And the lack of proper lobbies/hosting/private options killed any sort of true competitive pvp scene.
To put this in context. GTA O always had a competitive racing scene. Due to PRIVATE lobbies and hosting options. If R* pulls that same crap in the next GTA Online game.. And forced public only RANDOM lonely races. That same thing will happen to that racing scene as the current pvp scene in RD O.. It will be DOA
Then he says some garble about griefing.. "We've already seen less griefing'. Coming from someone who never plays the game, that's pretty funny. Nothings changed in terms of griefing. Its still the same as it always was.