Well it looks like I'm in the market for a new server binary. Can't use the old ones because the protocol version differs, and the new ones take cpu usage from 15% of a core to 100% before half the (6) bots are even in.
Can't say I'm terribly interested in ditching iKalizer on the client either. Luckily the stock exe now has +vstr support (something I can't live without), but I forgot how phenomenally bad stock audio was. I can live with the animations (the only thing a custom build can't fix) but it's hard to believe they weren't intentionally trying to be comical and ridiculous. It's practically an akimbo-hoedown topped with "hey look at me I'm an airplane" steering with their heads.
I won't speak for everyone, but I for one will wait for the "fixed by third parties" version.