As much as I'd like to see the problems plaguing modern tf2 dealt with, don't games like CS and DotA to an extent also have issues with cheaters and bots? It's been a pretty hot topic recently in even those games from what I've heard here and there. If even CS is having these issues, with as much money that it makes, I doubt telling Valve "WE WANT TF2 FIXED, CMON" is going to do anything. Like they'll stop trying to fix the current issues plaguing their huge money makers to fix their game from 2007 that they haven't completely abandoned yet because somehow it still makes some money off of some really dedicated people who love throwing money at.... what do they even add to tf2 anymore? More ill fitting cosmetics and then some gun skins that literally nobody cares about?
What I find kinda wild is how often these tf2 youtubers talk about how much they love the game and just want a place to play it unmolested, or the way they think is the best, but they just need valve to come do it for them. Can't these retards host their own dedicated servers? I've hosted dedicated servers for many other games, including source games. You can config the game into pretty much anything you want, it's really not that hard. Maybe the bots and cheaters are actually so aggressive and massive in presence that even a dedicated server will get fucked with by them - and if so, then fair enough - but if not, it's pretty fucking stupid to see the guys with like 150k subscribers who can get like 400k views on a video be like "Nothing I could possibly do about this. We need valve to do something"