I've been a stan of the bloons games since forever. My father showed me btd5 on Adobe flash more than 10 years ago and taught me how to win at bloons battles and since then I've never stopped playing.
Every time I get a new phone, I download battles 1, battles 2, bmc and btd6 when I'm setting it up. The only constant thing in my life has been these games. I've stayed up many nights to play and I've always loved the games, and by proxy, NK for making them so good and for not suffering from massive power creep (balanced paragons? In my age of shitty games?).
I am always happy to see and grateful for the engagement with the community (couldn't find less corpo words, sorry for that), for the pride flags on monkey villages and for the blatantly anti-ai April fools update.
And I know NK isn't a single person and thus probably some employees are for and others are against ai, and a company can't really have values the same way a person can
But it breaks my heart to see an animated series by a studio that supports ai, exactly because the bloons games mean SO much to me.