I'm not an expert on this, but I have a theory that the English are the dark souls style try hards of history.

English has a cold and dreary environment that's relatively hostile prior to literally terraforming it, every single edible plant in the isles comes from somewhere else, there are centuries worth of plagues that came out of the squalid living conditions, it's history is a revolving door of groups coming in to kill and pillage, and don't even get me started on the wolves.

It's basically centuries of playing on maximum hard mode. Then when you look at the people they colonized, India and the Americas were halcyonic in comparison. We're finding out that all the "wasted land" the colonials knocked over for fields in the US were massive, curated foraging gardens that could feed thousands for generations. They didn't realize they were knocking over the native equivalent to a free grocery store because they only ever used tree for murdering each other.

Now everyone is miserable because we let the guy that only plays regionally ranked mortal combat decide the rules we all have to play by when literally everyone else in the building wants to play animal crossing.