Keep Factions players in mind for next season - we are a majority of the playerbase!

As someone that knows this gamemode's community well, I can say that, to my knowlege, 7/10 players on the playtime leaderboard are factions players, those of us that played the gamemode when it used to be much more popular, and in some cases remember the golden era of roughly 2014 to 2016. In my case, I played Factions in 2016 which is how I eventually discovered OGN. I don't think Factions players have to be the primary playerbase of the server. A playerbase of 5%-20% players familiar with Factions may be fine with me, especially if the community was much larger overall. I think it's even possible that new players could get into factions over time and learn about the strategies, genning walls, using Litematica to build cannons, maybe even getting into cannon design for a niche subset of players, etc. That may or may not happen, but I'd absolutely LOVE to see that happen. My concern is that I really don't want to see changes made that Factions players are strongly against. For example, a shift to 1.9 pvp I suspect would be the final straw for many if not most here. I'm not sure if it's being considered for next season or more so just a longer term possibility, but I wanted to bring this up. If the gamemode goes for modern pvp I would be disappointed for TWO reasons. First, I prefer 1.8, but second, if no one else is playing with factions experience that will be too easy for me. Having others around with factions experience makes things MUCH more interesting for me.