Please top telling other people how they are supposed to enjoy the game

Almost every other day people are complaining about Civ pickers.
Stop it!

There is no Civilization that is totally broken, it is not true, that you are only playing vs the same civ over, and over again. Even at <1000 only the eleven most picked civs together are only making up 50% of all picks. You do have variety in your opponents civs!

In addition, and even more importantly:

There is nothing wrong with someone picking a civ. Not everyone is playing this game with the same motivations, same reasons and same ambitions.

People might want to pick a civ because they just like that particular civ, for game play or sentimental reasons. They might want to pick a civ because they want to learn a certain strategy with them, they might pick a civ because they just very much enjoy how that civ plays. There are plenty of reasons to pick a civ, and there are plenty of reasons to go random. In the end neither of those choices are taking anything away from you, so you have no right to tell the other person how they are supposed to enjoy the game!

Calling out 'civ pickers' is nothing else but elitist bullshit gatekeeping. If you are so much into improving, adapting and getting better at the game you should be even more for civ pickers. Doesn't it after all give you more strong civs to play against, which just adds more opportunities for you to improve?