There is a philosophy among some people in the community, that we should not implement the path of least resistance. Among the people in question, an unscientific determination has been made that the path should have added resistance, presumably for the purpose of weeding out weak, shallow, instant-gratification players. After all these years of implementing that system, we now have empirical data to show that it is an absolute and utter failure. Over these years, we have seen a decline in tournaments, sponsors and players. At no point has the path of added resistance led to any kind of positive gain.

Reality is what it is, regardless of one's personal ideals. In almost every realistic case, people will choose the path of least resistance. If you change the Quake system to the path of least resistance, it will increase the number of players, sponsors and tournaments. This is not a matter of faith or dogma, it is a matter of scientific fact. It would be unfortunate if the game has been too devastated by the path of added resistance to be adequately resurrected, but we can and should try.