If you're on PC and play a lot of older games, you can find plenty of single-player games with multiplayer option, especially from the PS3/Xbox360 era. You know what they all have in common? The multiplayer is always dead. Such wasted efforts.

Hmmm... I'm on the fence on this one.

On one hand translating a single player game into having multiplayer components usually suck and the results are probelmatic at best, but damn it's hard to argue how much Last Of Us Factions slaps!

While I agree with this sentiment, a LOT of action games could use 1-on-1 PvP. Developers get this messed up by thinking that every online component needs to be Battle Royale. There's a whole slew of ideas that have never been fully realized in fighting games, and we could actually bring them to fruition with 1v1 in action games.

Example: Star Wars Fallen Order/Survivor with 1on1 lightsaber battles. No mess, no clutter of 10 people acting dumb on a map...just you and an opponent. THIS is what we need more of.

I know that the post is about online multiplayer.
But I just want to add that personally I miss the days where a local multiplayer component was more common than not. I loved the abundance of coop campaigns and deathmatches with bots, or little mini games. I hate that despite consoles getting stronger, splitscreen is less commonplace.
4 player splitscreen used to chug along on the ps2/n64 era but it was a blast. Now there's just very little of that outside of party games.
I will always prefer having my friends over to game, laughing and drinking beers all the while.

I like couch co-op but not online multiplayer very much. Souls game MP I enjoy but I always play them solo first. It’s up to the devs what they want to do I’m not going to complain about what they do I’ll either buy the game or I won’t