That's because most players gave up on this forum along time ago. People are always trash talking it on platform.
You forgot the other part which are not familar with forums, well i don't blame them seing 2 threads like this it makes you wanna clear your history and never come back again.
Most of that stuff is just removing P2W crap which should be done to every private server. The only thing in that list that was really suggested hard by the community and got put in for us was the increase in stone drop rate. But we all had to give up an arm and a leg to get that done, countless threads being closed, and also costed TonyEffe getting banned.
No it was planned before since the very begin before you or Tony made an account here, we did what we did because we wanted to and not because it's a private server.
Not only PvE got trashed with that .5 .5 nerf, PvP is totally unbalanced aswell. Getting one hit as Ultima with +14 lv 70 gear and full prop + full buffs with around 25-30k hp by any human in that game that builds some crit dmg (mostly fighter), is ridiculous. Now you will come up with arguments like "yea but you can go anticrit and it should be fine". Aha, I have 40% anticrit and get crit with like every second ability. Back to prop, let me list some problems.
You want retail balance, you should know that back then in retail buffers get 1 shoted by mere fighters with +12 tickets on their N-prop attribute weapon i'm talking about good buffers full prop and green aura CC it also has prop, in Dbog you get to chance to benefit from half prop instead of 0.
Regarding turtles, take a look on DiVine videos near his character Icon you will notice he had "N-prop" he bypass target's property def, thats why my dear turtle in dbog deal less damage than retail.
As you see here, he have strange on armor and nothing on weapon he is not using nothing prop for nothing. Special elite top tier player should know this kind of detail they forgot to tell you about it