You say the competitive community is "salty", but I'd say they're perfectly justified in being upset over the fact that the devs took away the only competitive reward system that the game had for towering, promising to replace it with a new and better system and getting the hopes of the entire community up that the game just might be rejuvenated in some way, only to have those hopes crushed and being left with no reward system at all, and for the most part left in the dark with no answers or comments from the devs. To call it being "salty" is to undermine people's legitimate grievances over the issue.