Increasing number of players using 3rd party tools

[Packetdancer]

Not quite. Paisley Park is the tool in question that got so much attention. It didn't automatically place markers but rather could save an unlimited number of presets that you could then alt-tab to and swap placements. The backlash it received was honestly ridiculously overblown because it didn't impact TPS' World First clear in the slightest. All it did was save the SCH having to replace markers constantly, which they did during downtime anyway.

Now there were other programs that could auto place markers but Paisley is what caused the backlash.

I think a lot of players conflated the two; when people heard about the add-ons that could automatically place markers *without* player action (I.e. off of automated triggers) and then saw people using a tool that could place markers automatically when a player clicked a preset in a list, they confused the two.

The one that just saved presets was, as I understand it, functionally little different than the five presets they give us in game now... just not limited to five.