Agree diamond armour in itself isn’t a big problem. Diamond god armour (although still OP) in combination with the apples and healing boosts and make PvP unbalanced. And the lead up time to getting those things from scratch for newish players to participate is massive.

But as expected no one is seeing the forest for the trees on the issue.

Minecraft is the most popular game in the world. This server gets about 35 pl max on it. That says something. New people join all the time and soon leave. They want to play, but the learning curve to participation is too massive.

I think this world would be more fun with more players more often at a greater participation level. Does anyone agree with that or happy with the small community of regular players?

Any changes could affect the economy as well which would have to be taken into account and ultimately Gods has to be able to keep the the server running or there is no debate.

I think its also a debate between those who prefer stats based combat over skills based combat.