This game is plagued by cheating. Over the years the cheats have been refined to be easy to configure, ramp up or down and toggle. There are players with cheats installed in the majority of games and whether they turn them on, or how high they set them is often a matter of whether they’ve started to lose.
Of course there are also still the rage-hackers, and there’s often one of those too.
Until the game brings cheating under control, it’s going to remain in its current pitiful state.