One of the things that drove me nuts about HorizonXI is that they made a bunch of changes without telling anyone what they were, but then threatened disciplinary action on anyone exploiting things that weren't meant to be there.
The regular players had no idea what was a "feature" and what was a "bug". The devs and their friends did, though. So they were having a jolly old time abusing every buff and change they made. Meanwhile everyone was super apprehensive about even using stuff like Boost because it was made so much stronger than it was in Era. But that was a feature. But when people started abusing a glitch in making money fishing, they were banned.
Doesn't help too that they didn't even have a beta test. The stress test doesn't count because none of their Era Plus changes were included in that.