So many posts recently about stale gameplay

This is why I don't understand why people choose to play on heavily modded servers where gather rates are insane. Everyone has a giga and metal buildings within a days play. Then they'll turn around and complain that the game is stale, boring, and nothing left to do. Games like these aren't fun at the end game, it's getting to the end game is where it is fun...and then starting over.

The official server I played on is "grindy" and we've had the same core group of players for 500+ hours, with more to do. The pace of vanilla gameplay seems to pace with patch releases quite well.

I'm not knocking modded servers by any means, but don't take the toll roads, then complain that you got to your destination too quickly. Just like travel, these games are about the experiences and seeing the sights, not rushing to the finish line.