Increasing number of players using 3rd party tools

[drtasteyummy]

There were plenty of cheats in ranked Feast matches for the last 3-4 seasons. People running at ridiculous speeds, people that cannot be stunned, people floating mid air, people teleporting out of the starting ring before match warmup ends hitting the other team from the outside without any danger, people having programs automatically interrupt enemy Limit Breaks at 0,0001% of their cast bar every time etc. These didn't use to happen but I noticed a clear trend of more and more people with these kind of things last few seasons

That might be but this isn't something that wouldn't be there even if mods weren't allowed (as in actively being hunted, see WoW), in fact this could easily be adjusted by a single GM just watching but truth is PvP in FF is so minor and unimportant - particularly because it's the satan spawn of toxicity like nothing else not even loggers - that they just don't care. If you were to remove ladder right now I bet most people wouldn't even notice, I argue at best people would notice the complete remove of PvP because of roulette rewards and missing glamour.