Around 2017-2018, there used to be a huge circlejerk online about how Fortnite was the dumbest thing ever, to the point where “Fortnite bad, Minecraft good” was part of the infamous Keanu Chungus 100 meme. Why did it get so much hate, and why did it stop?
That might be because Fortnite had managed to become weirdly messy and bloated by the time that could happen, and was already somewhat degenerate/impure at launch. And unlike Minecraft, all the messy variation/complexity was right there on the surface, not part of a deep modding scene.
When I opened Minecraft, it didn’t make any effort to sell me a Borderlands skin.