My observation of this substance was that it was similar to a low grade opiate and seemed to be quite habit forming among several people I knew that tried it.
Lots of people still need to learn that the primary objective is for the colony to be successful and even if you personally get a high score you lose the game if the colony fails. Also, Wumpus hunting is underrated.
I think that it's closed so that you are forced to receive an invitation to join, and to send an invitation you have to give the app access to your phone's contacts (at least on iOS when I looked at it, quickly uninstalled). There were a number of dark patterns utilized to try and get elevated permissions and access to contacts.
That's a straw man. They're saying that hundreds of millions of Chinese people (and others around the world) have risen out of poverty because of globalism. You're only giving credit for the negative impacts of globalism, and in kind of a duplicitous manner.