Future Umbra here, big wall of text incoming, prepare lol It's "our mess" because we _used_ to have a mechanism to make players update that we have since abandoned. That's what I've been getting at this entire time. We had a solution to this problem in the past that we used for 4ish years, it worked great and it was simple; disabling score submissions. In my opinion this does a few things: - Keeps modders motivated because there isn't a version split (i.e "nobody will use my mod cause I made it for <latest version> and everyone is on <older version>) - Creates a sense of urgency to keep relevant mods up to date and maintained, because we're _all_ developing for the same version range of the game and we're all on the same page - Less confusion for people new to modding the game -- as a community we were absolute chads at maintaining version support for whatever the latest version of the game was because disabling score submissions lit a fire under our asses, it may seem normal now and tools like BSManager help but like it or not expecting someone new to the game to downgrade is a huge barrier to entry which'd turn a big chunk of people off - Respects Beat Games. This was a bigger deal back in the day and one I don't personally care about as much anymore ever since the mega corp took over, but still worth mentioning, we have a fair bit of power in the modding community and control a sizeable chunk of the playerbase, as the person who used to press the "disable score submissions button" each time I'd witness a mass migration to the latest version... which of course benefits beat games for obvious reasons So, what's the cost of doing this and why aren't we doing it now? The cost is mild inconvenience for players forced to upgrade as their favourite mod may not be ready, but this is the classic chicken and the egg scenario, if modders have less reason to update for the latest version because nobodies on the latest version than they won't... see the problem emerging here? I'm not going to write out the rest of this loop I hope you can fill in the blanks here. This mechanism was **so** important to the health of the games health overall. As for "why aren't we doing it now"? I've been fighting this behind the scenes for almost 3 years now. The other team does not want to play ball because it "goes against the nature of open source software". As if it's an unheard of concept for open source software to make breaking indirect protocol changes to bring everyone up to date 🙃 So yeah, being that ScoreSaber is no longer the only player in the space; we can't do this anymore without creating a _second_ split in the community forming an even larger rift until the other players in the space change their mind.