I've watched this happen on multiple video game forums, and it kills the sub when this kind of attitude takes over, drives incredibly amounts of toxicity, and generally makes the game a worse experience for everyone involved.

I've played in video game tournaments at a national level, and won. My largest individual prize was 10k before taxes, so this was decently serious but not like CS Globals or MOBA internationals type of play, that's on a whole other level above where I was. On those same games I played at that level on, did I trash people for being "bad" and asking for the game to be changed to make it more fun for them? No. I understood that if you catered to only the top 0.1% of players, there is no game. The game can't afford to exist.

It's fine to ask for a niche in the game, a higher difficulty, an MMR system, something to give appropriate challenges to the tiny, tiny minority that can smash through everything with their eyes closed and a hand tied behind their back. It isn't okay to be a video game snob on the internet and trash everyone who hasn't dumped an unusually large amount of hours into a single video game like you have, though.

I never, ever trashed on people for devoting less time to a game I played but still wanting to enjoy it. I see their perspective as reasonable, and if the game really is that easy for me, I ask the devs for a challenge (which iirc Arrowhead said they want to add higher difficulties already, so have some patience).

If you have 2,000 hours on HD2 - congratulations. You've extracted an enormous amount of fun and value out of a single video game for a very reasonable price. If you feel like it's "too easy," take a break, wait for higher difficulties, try playing with something that isn't meta, try having a little fun. There's no tournaments to win on Helldivers 2. It's not a PVP game. Chill.