I got EoD edition back in like 2017 and played it for a fair bit, but I’ve maintained for years that BSG is a shit company and the best possible thing to happen is for a new game that is very similar to come out and gut their playerbase.
Tons of people called me an idiot back when I said this in like 2020, so it’s good to see at least some level of pushback - now we just need that replacement game and BSG is screwed (especially since they still do wipes, meaning there is less sunk-cost fallacy to keep people around).
A shit company who seemingly has ties to some Russian invaders: https://lr.n8pjl.ca/r/Tarkov/comments/11d3sh9/please_remove_references_to_a_russian_invader/
And I think you are right that another game has to come around and just do tarkov without the mistakes.
Shouldn’t be that difficult for experienced devs to make a barebones version of it of which can be build upon.