Why is running your own map such a difficult concept?

1: We have nothing for statistics, so we can't genuinely say there are no maps that couldn't be cleared. That's just based on the (seemingly) 2 dozen people who actually post on this forum. And no one has claimed to only see "1 or 2" cheese maps, if I saw that few I wouldn't give a crap about them.

2: The issue isn't that bases are "impossible" to beat, it's that people make a base that uses so much spam it requires luck, not skill, to clear. There's a reason the same type of base showed up over and over, because it was effective with little work to be had and skill had a minimal affect. 30+ enemies shooting at you in an open room with differencing delayed shots and AoE attacks that only need to hit you once and all of them exploding on death made it so that unless you're the top 1% of players, you're not gonna live more than 30 seconds. If all maps are going to be based around being the top players, it'll be dead before winter hits as you can't convince a new person to the game that they can either do maps that are basically walks in the park, or they can die 10 times in the first 10 steps into the room.

While I do agree building should give more progression towards leveling, the difference between building a base once (or just constantly adding little bits to it) and then waiting for people to give you progress does not compare to constantly having to try to work your way through a new base every time you play. I had 5 bases, 3 of which were Brutal and 2 dangerous. 1 brutal had over 200+ kills, 1 dangerous ended with over 70 kills (I think it was 73, was a small base, 1,000 build capacity, did terrible starting out) and the other 3 bases all had over 100 kills. I had to repay for a base that didn't prestige once (the low kill base) in the week. I put nowhere near as many hours into those as I did raiding, and still came out with only 1 reroll in the week. Didn't have to run any spam BS builds, so the argument of "this type of map is needed to get kills" only works if your designs are actually that bad, in which case, you should probably do some raiding to get ideas for good builds. That was the whole POINT of making you raid to start with, so you got an idea of what did/didn't work. Player like you're wearing a tinfoil hat and avoiding alien probes is a perfectly reasonable, albeit a little funny, strategy. If you want to solely build, that's fine, but it's just like DbD in that case. If you only play Killer or Survivor and never do the other, you'll never fully comprehend the other side. You don't need to do it all the time by any means, but you're not doing yourself any favors by ignoring it.

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As to the original point of my post, Clownkrieger actually pointed out something I hadn't realized when I originally made it. I had thought people had an issue with having to run their own base in test mode, which was so easy it's laughable, however he stated others were asking for an entirely different test mode where the builders become just a regular raider and have to complete it themselves.

This wasn't my understanding of the situation, so I'm an idiot on this point, and I can understand builders not wanting this as a requirement now, as there are people who can be incredibly creative in building but not up to par for the raiding part. (this is excluding people who just make spam maps, if you're that type of person, I loathe your existence lol).

If a mod could delete or lock this post, as it's basis was a misunderstanding on my part (and I can't find how to delete it), I would appreciate it.