i think a lot of the flak these servers get lies in how hard it is to properly grapple to small objects while moving very fast
i had a bit of an idea to improve the grapple gun a bit, but i'm not sure it's actually possible. someone who knows better would have to tell me more on that

green is the player, gray are different platforms / objects one could grab on to
red is the camera-crosshair line, the line the player aims down at
the orange boundary along with the red one represent a sort of cone of action or something
basically, the grapple gun would grapple to the first object it sees within the cone of action
i think it'd be a pretty easy way to make the grapple gun easier to use, if it's actually doable, but i highly doubt it actually is
the core of the idea is making it so that approximate aiming is enough to grapple onto an object, with priority to closer ones