State of the community, whats your opinion?

Hello everyone! Lately everyone seems to be focused on the economy, but what about the community? Personally I play MapleLegends for the friendships, thus I value the community and the "family feel" a lot. Sometimes my preference for running content with more people (cuz more friends more fun right?), rather than maximizing profit from it, feels like Im a total weirdo. Hence this thread to find out if I am indeed a weirdo, or if the feeling is mutual!

Back when I started, end of 2019, two-party CWK`s were quite common. People, at least in my alliance, were helping each other with running content to actively help lower levels reach higher goals. Even the endgame players would run "low level content" or large groups content just to help, sacrificing potential extra splits for stronger friendships and basic kindness. Friendship, a guild or alliance meant something, I feel this has changed a lot since then. For example I've seen 10man CWK`s get reduced to 3- and 4-man CWK`s over time. Smega's for zakum stating they only recruit lvl x+ because they want fast runs (when in reality they save roughly 5 minutes while often spending an extra hour finding SE for the one NL). The 400 base int player that was carried through HT, just because he was a good friend and fun to hang out with, but seemingly forgot how he got to where he is now.

Recently I've heard someone say "Running 5 man cwk with a shad, is like running 4 man cwk with less splits". That shad was me, and that comment hurt cuz I was carrying my own weight while that guy died 2x. It was a hard realization that there are people who only seem to care about the profit, not the people behind the pixels, and aim to cut out any "inefficiencies" for their own profits.

Im not blind to the smaller content still being ran with friends, higher profits help getting that perfect weapon faster and that the higher level players do have the luxury of needing less people. But in all honesty, I miss the time where people were more social. More willing to give up a little, just to make someone else's day a little better. I still have a "family" here, but it feels a lot smaller and less tight-knit than it used to be.

What do YOU think of the state of the community? Is my experience different from yours, or is it similar? Am I indeed a silly weirdo that longs for the past to return? What would you like to see changed (if any) and how do you think it can be established?

Sidenote: I consider myself an endgame player, maining a 189 shad with solid gear and a ws10 project. I avoid muling (Im a single client casual pleb with no mages), hate grinding (yes, we exist somehow) and try to help my lower level allies as much as I can with joining community runs, teaching them how things work and overall pick runners that need it to progress. I believe that this helps them stay motivated to keep playing, and reinforce the community while also creating a larger pool of players to play endgame content with.