If the old forum or my old Steam review existed I'd challenge anyone to find a case of me going 180, or saying anything contradicting my current stance.
I've been wrong, sure, plenty of times. But my approach was always 'wait and see'. And the thing about a 'wait and see' approach is that eventually after waiting and seeing you are then allowed to form an opinion based on your observations, in fact that's kinda the expectation. Bugs me that people at the time read 'wait and see' as 'I'll follow you to the ends of the earth Donkey Crew', and I can't be a smug git and quote myself from a year ago because the old forum's gone.
I waited and I saw that it was not good.
Well you didn't just "wait and see" though, you actively took part of many balance discussions where you'd happily flaunt your opinions and shit on players. This honestly wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't for the fact that you didnt actually play the game as you admitted yourself meaning your opinions were theory at best and baseless conjecture at worst. Heskey's arguments would solely stem from what advocates of OKAM (fanboys) would say or how he interpreted patchnotes, he would then use these unbaised sources in balance threads where he'd defend bad mechanics while simultaneously debate players who actually played the game and were good at it, truly the actions of a neutral observer.
You try to come off as some sort of wise moderate unfortunately that's not what you were or what you are. When the game was going strong you'd defend it but when the winds starded to blow in a different direction you changed your approach to "there's problems but most criticism is unfounded" and when the game failed you became a staunch opposer of the game. Your true nature is that of a conformist, which is a ok I mean if there ever was a time to be a conformist it is the time we live in now.
Heskey contrary to what this post might look like I am not trying to insult you or start a flame war it is just that, I mean nigga c'mon the fact that you vehemently defended the game and now vehemently oppose it and the fact that his thread has like 40 pages and like 50% of the posts are yours means that you were more emotionally involved in the game than just "wait and see".