Supporters argue he was effectively the only person keeping the game alive: with access to all the game's configs, credited as a mapper in his own right, and backed by just one or two programmers and two skin artists who reportedly worked only one to three days a month. A Steam Community post rallying support for the petition put it bluntly: "Adam is essential to the Quake Franchise." The petition itself frames his removal as a direct threat to the game's future, since there is no clear indication who, if anyone, keeps pushing updates, balance changes, and PTS patches now that he is gone.

Not everyone is signing. Longtime critics blame him for high-randomness tournament brackets, map designs many consider schematically flawed, and years of anti-cheat complaints. One frequently cited ESReality thread accused the dev team of ignoring reported wallhackers in ranked duel for weeks, calling the handling "pathetic." Others have mocked the scale of the job facing a solo developer, joking that SyncError "could reimplement" Valve-style anti-cheat systems in Quake Champions, "but it will take like several hundred years." Not all players agree cheating is even a real problem, though: some longtime posters say accusations are overblown and cheaters are, in their experience, rare.