> Said no one ever?
At least me said for now. What's the difference who said it? It's true.
> "If you want to use such things"
I don't want to, but I don't like losing, because enemy has "unfair advantage".
Also, as not everyone understands the problem fully:
1. You can replace smoke with same type of graphics, which will let you to defibrite / heal / loot in the smoke, which is with standard graphics impossible.
2. You can replace item models with anything you want, letting you to see the item with any type of additional graphics. E.g. big fat writing "Plasma cannon" which will let you to see the item behind any obstacle, on any ground, e.g. as soon as you dropped it from enemy hands will let you to pick it up faster. Especially it's much easier to do with all new item models.
3. You can replace player models with graphics, which will make them much easier to aim.
> "That people will hate on you"
So, another one "Don't blame, and be not blamed"... So don't forget to check Russian Whine Wall, which is full of nice things, said and done by your BBoys teammates (and leader), in the same time as screenshot with their game modifications. That actually was quite surprising for me to know that you "dare to stand your ground" playing with them with any argument. Did you know about what I described? I'm pretty sure, you did. Did you affect anyhow your leader and teammates to not using it / report them / describe the problem to the community? I'm pretty sure you didn't. So hate me now, I don't really care...
I gave my opinion on the topic in
this thread. In short, there should be a mechanism to restrict client-side file modification / inner game setting for everyone to turn off / on official version for the wall replacer. But "To fight cheaters, you need cheats" I has heard later, and it describes the problem good enough.